Hi --

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:28:49PM +0900, David A. Black wrote:
> > > > That might be the best way if you don't need to deal with the two
> > > > values as a pair beyond getting them back from the method.
> > > 
> > > Even if you need to deal with them as pair this is the appropriate method:
> > 
> > Do you mean: even if you don't need to deal... ?
> 
> No, the original message addressed the not-needing-to-deal; this was the
> opposite.  The point is, the caller can do either:
> 
>         var1, var2 = obj.meth
> 
> and thereby get the results in separate variables, or
> 
>         onevar = obj.meth
> 
> and get the results as an array stored in a single variable.

Yes, that was our starting point :-) My var1, var2 suggestion was as
an alternative to the grabbing-as-an-array approach.  I think the
subsequent confusion was over the word 'pair', which I took to mean
'array' in Robert's usage.  

Anyway, Robert seemed to be suggesting that, of the two ways that have
been demonstrated, returning a single array is the 'appropriate' way
and that was what I wasn't following.  


David

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