OpenEuphoria

Re: Pass by address

• Posted by Jeff Zeitlin <jzeitlin at CYBURBAN.COM> Aug 18, 2000
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:02:18 -0400, Andy Cranston
<Andy.Cranston at EUPHONY.CO.UK> wrote:

>Ouch!  That C++ code hurts 

>On the pass by address thread...

>Maybe I'm being simplistic here (and I'm all for the easy life - it's why I
>like Euphoria so much) but am I hitting the nail on the head re: pass by
>address when I say:

>"The problem is that a function can take multiple arguments but can only
>return one value?"

>If we had a function that could return multiple values would we then not
>need pass by address?  Something like:

You can always return a sequence with (n) elements, (n) being the number of
values that you want to return.  I believe the standard Euphoria library
function 'get()' does this.

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Jeff Zeitlin
jzeitlin at cyburban.com