Re: Multiple return values

      What's missing that will make everything easier is (a) structured
expressions, example: { 3, 5, 3, 2 } is a constant of type int [4],
also convertible to type struct { int; int; int; int; }, or even int
[]. (b) assignments to structured variables, example: {X, Y} =
IntPair();


      It's not a major problem to extend C in this direction, since it
already allows variables to be initialized to structured constants.
So just allow structured constants and expressions in a most general
context, in the extended language, and fix up the syntax as needed.


      Then, as a automatic consequence, you'll have functions which can
return multiple values.


      One additional thing that could be added to make things easier is
the "anonymous" structure, example: struct { int; int; int; int; } as
above, where the fields are not named.
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