Re: (cached) named return values?

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:45:10 -0500, Ken Tilton wrote:

Meanwhile in another thread my agonizing over the architecture most
appropriate to signs has culminated in a dopeslap upside my head
producing the stunningly obvious result of both plus and minus simply
being unary operators (which is what they are fer chrissakes) but this
only happened because the monkeys went down tools and refused to deal an
LOC longer with my clever alternative of a binary "signing" operator
with a plus or minus as the first operand. That daftitude arose as an
intermediate step towards enlightenment much as Python and Ruby were
steps towards Lisp from an original conceptualization in which a sign
was shorthand for a multiplication by -1 or 1, bringing us back to
Tilton's Law: Don't lie to the computer.

hth, kzo

That just gave me another headache.

Thanks a lot Ken.

Joost.


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