Functions which return multiple values?
    Frank Benoit 
    keinfarbton at googlemail.com
       
    Sat Sep 29 05:37:01 PDT 2007
    
    
  
Bill Baxter schrieb:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> Dan schrieb:
>>> Without using an array or struct, can D return more than one value
>>> from a function? If not, why isn't this a desirable feature for a
>>> programming language to have?
>>
>> You can use "out" arguments or a tuple return type.
> 
> At the end of the video of Walter's talk at the NWCPP users group he
> says he'd like to add the ability to return tuples.  But I don't know if
> that's still something rattling around in his mind or not.
> 
> --bb
Hm right, functions cannot return a tuple directly.
In my current code I use
template Struct(T...){
  struct Struct{
    T t;
  }
}
and in functions....
Struct!(long, bool[]) get(){
  Struct!(long, bool[]) res;
  res.t[0] = 34;
  res.t[1] = [ true, false ];
  return res;
}
    
    
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