[Lvlug] Re: Lisp (was Re: [Nj-linux-consultants] Musings)

[Ruth A. Kramer]

Faber Fedor wrote:
> IIRC, Scheme is the dialect you want.  Common List is okay as well.

Thanks!

> > > I noticed that immediately with
> > > python in constructs like
> > >
> > >     x,y = foobar()
> >
> > Darn, now I'll have to go figure out what that means.
> 
> In the Algol type languages, you can only return one thing, and many
> times it's a simple data type.  The above example shows how you can
> return TWO pieces of data from a function.  (Technically, you're passing
> back one tuple and putting it into two variables). 

Thanks!

> This first showed up
> in Lisp 50 some years ago.

Hmm, I'd believe something closer to 40 years ago, maybe, but something
else for me to check when I go back to the book.

regards,
Randy Kramer