Multiple return values

[Andrew Wiley]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:48 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis:
>
>> I'm not saying anything about the value of the feature. I'm just saying that
>> given D's lineage, it's not at all suprising that it doesn't support multiple
>> return values. In fact, it would be very abnormal if it did. The OP seems to
>> expect that modern languages would support such a feature, whereas many do not
>> - particularly the C-based ones.
>
> OK.
> For fun here is a slightly modified version of your text:
>
> "I'm not saying anything about the value of the feature. I'm just saying that given D's lineage, it's not at all suprising that it doesn't support nested functions. In fact, it would be very abnormal if it did. The OP seems to expect that modern languages would support such a feature, whereas many do not - particularly the C-based ones."
>

While that's true, it's completely tangential to the argument at hand.