Are multiple return values really harmful? (Re: determining the number of output arguments)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Nov 17 22:34:49 EST 2004


Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> @returns('year','month','day')
> def today():
>     ...
>     return year, month, day

I was also thinking of suggesting an extension to
the return statement:

    return year = y, month = m, day = d

but I thought one radical idea per post would
be plenty. :-)

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