OpenEuphoria

Re: 2.6 feature request: foreach (off topic)

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Jul 15, 2005
• 453 views

Kat wrote:
> 
> >  David Cuny's wxBasic 
> > <a
> > href="http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/">http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/</a>
> 
> I like DavidC's basic in the way it can return multiple values, something we 
> asked RDS for also. Oh well, we can jump thru hoops to get around that 
> too. We lost David from here because RDS would not grow Euphoria.

It's not that hard, just return a sequence containing each value you want
returned.

While somethne like 

success, val = value(string)

might (theoretically) sound like a good idea to implement if you're interested
in only a specific value (say val) you need to copy the sequence over anyways
(like we do now) or use some syntax that'll probably be butt-ugly like

,,z = get_coords()

or like in Perl

($_, $_, $x) = get_coords()

With sequences as powerful as they are this is pretty useless and makes the code
look ugly and confusing.