Re: Multiple return values

"Mike Ashley" <jashley@eecs.ukans.edu>
22 Apr 1997 21:13:22 -0400

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From: "Mike Ashley" <jashley@eecs.ukans.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 22 Apr 1997 21:13:22 -0400
Organization: University of Kansas
References: 97-04-091 97-04-104
Keywords: design, bibliography

Ken Walter <icedancer@ibm.net> wrote
> Returning a collection of anonymous results is more complicated than
> loading one result into the registers for return. If the caller isn't
> interested in the return values how are they discarded, etc.? If
> structures are allowed to be returned, then the multiple values can be
> returned as one object; this takes care of most cases.


You might look at
  J. Michael Ashley and R. Kent Dybvig. An Efficient Implementation of
  Multiple Return Values in Scheme, Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on
  LISP and Functional Programming, pp. 140-149, 1994.


It addressess all of the points raised above. The paper is available
online at
http://www.designlab.ukans.edu/~jashley/papers/lfp94.pdf and
http://www.designlab.ukans.edu/~jashley/papers/lfp94.ps.
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