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Re:Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake? by semiquaver on Saturday March 15, 2025 @03:15PM (#43374579)
I’m not sure what the name for this fallacy is. Appeal to unrelated concept?

Among the first functions children learn are things like addition of two numbers which lack this supposedly natural property.

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Re:Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake? by nivertech on Saturday March 15, 2025 @03:44PM (#43374750)
IMO you mistaken math-like infix notation with the number of arguments function receives.

  Tuple(Number,Number) -> add -> Number|Overflow
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