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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Return (errors, multi-items, etc.)
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Date: 12 Aug 89 07:42:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM's message of 11 Aug 89 18:04:18 GMT

In <2987@cuuxb.ATT.COM>,
   mmengel@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Marc W. Mengel) asks:
> Is
>	{a,b,c} = f(x,y);
> really that much prettier than
>	f(x,y, &a,&b,&c);

Yes.  Much in the same way people write
	a = f(x);
rather than
	f(x, &a);
or
	call _f,1
	ld [%fp-0x8],%o0
	st %o0,[%fp-0x4]

You should say what you mean, not just mean what you say.

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