On 7/30/07, Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel@cobss.com wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:04:04 +0200, J J (in a hard-to-read HTML message :) wrote:
That would probably require a big change to implement and you end up with something Smalltalk can already do other ways, and become (more) incompatible with other dialects.
You can always do ^ {this. and / or. that} for returning multiple values, without any change in Squeak.
Yes, that's why I said "something Smalltalk can already do". But what Smalltalk couldn't do here (without modifications) is catch that return in two (or more) separate values in one line as:
|a b| {a.b} := someFunctionReturningTwoValues