Re: Beginner--How to simulate multiple returns for a function?
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- Subject: [mg66454] Re: Beginner--How to simulate multiple returns for a function?
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 02:57:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Robert Dodier wrote: > Jens-Peer Kuska wrote: > >> what are multiple returns ? > > Probably what the original poster wants is not just to return a list, > but to return a list and assign its elements to multiple variables. > E.g. Python understands the following > > (A, B, C) = (1, 2, 3) > > to mean A = 1, B = 2, C = 3. Lisp has several similar constructs > (MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND and so on). > > Of course it would help if people would just come right out and > say what they want. > > FWIW > Robert Dodier > Hi Robert, We can do that in Mathematica too. Just replace parenthesis by curly braces as in In[1]:= Clear[a, b, c] a + b + c {a, b, c} = {1, 2, 3} {c, b, a} a + b + c {a, b, c} == {1, 2, 3} Out[2]= a + b + c Out[3]= {1, 2, 3} Out[4]= {3, 2, 1} Out[5]= 6 Out[6]= True Best regards, Jean-Marc