Re: Multiple return values

Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
14 May 1997 23:56:23 -0400

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From: Jan Vorbrueggen <jan@fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 May 1997 23:56:23 -0400
Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
References: 97-05-166
Keywords: design

mark@omnifest.uwm.edu (Mark Hopkins) writes:


> 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();


All this is in that well-known language, occam2, with the nice
semantic properties Henry Baker mentioned in another post; the
compiler makes extensive use of them for optimization. Also, functions
in occam2 are side-effect free (and the compiler checks that!) and
thus trivially in-lineable etc. Very nice.


Jan
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