[Gambas-user] Another syntax sweetness question and request

T Lee Davidson t.lee.davidson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 01:30:26 CET 2019


I would think a Structure could be used for that as well. But the Wiki says, "DON'T USE STRUCTURES, UNLESS YOU HAVE TO!"


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Lee


On 3/6/19 6:47 PM, Tony Morehen wrote:
> An alternative to returning multiple values is to return a Gambas native class such as point, rect, rectf etc
> 
> It may be worthwhile to add some other native classes to Gambas, such as:
> 
> tuple (variant, variant)
> 
> ntuple (integer,variant)
> 
> ftuple (float, variant)
> 
> stuple (string, variant)
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> On 2019-03-06 2:57 p.m., Cedron Dawg wrote:
>> Question:
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>> Which is preferred:  "Function  .. As .." -OR-  "Sub  .. As .." ?
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>> Anybody have a strong opinion?
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>> I lean towards, and am using, the latter.  A step away from BASIC perhaps, but one fewer thing a newbie has to learn.  More 
>> elegant.
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>>
>> Request:
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>> Would it be possible to make subs return multiple values like Python can?
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>> That can be really handy.
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>> Thanks.
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