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Re:Returning multiple values from functions in C++ by lispm on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:12PM (#11241724)
Why don't you take a bit of time to read about multiple values in Common Lisp?

    CL-USER 76 > (nth-value 1 (values 'a 'b 'c 'd))
    B
While you are at it, check out the feature of 'Macros' in Lisp, which allows everyone to write code to shorten this stuff. See my code in this thread for a macro which then allows you to write:

    (multiple-value-bind-some (NIL b)
       (foo bar baz)
      b)
One then can name ignored variables as NIL in the source code...
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Re:Returning multiple values from functions in C++ by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:13AM (#11245289)
Good point. And very true. Still looks a bit ugly to me, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. And yes, I am aware of macros. For some reason using them in this situation didn't occur to me, so I guess I am an idiot after all.

This is actually one of the cases where syntax-rules would allow you to write something cleaner, I would guess. I like syntax rules, but everybody always seems to complain about it...

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