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Re: Python or Perl for a Debian maintainance project?



On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 20:45, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:35:24PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 20:31, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > 
> > > Nor
> > > does it have accessible multi-valued returns - you have to define an
> > > entire class to do it.
> > 
> > huh? pair(x,y); And similar things can be done for larger collections.
> 
> Try it, compared to a list return in perl or similar languages.

That sounds like a use for overloaded operator , & a list<> return type.

Yes - perl does it intrinsically, and probably cleaner. But it's not
true to say that C requires one to define a custom class for doing it,
as the generic handle it quite nicely.

Rob
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