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@chandlerc How would you suggest we go about exploring it? Simply suggesting a design specification? Or something else?

I agree with @richelbilderbeek. Many languages support mulitple return values via tuple. It avoids the overhead of making a struct everytime you need an ad hoc return value. It would...

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:17 AM Pazns [email protected] wrote: > @TBBle https://github.com/TBBle : What are, in the end, the real > benefits against C-like approach, like returning error...

@pazns An iterator might be a good choice for my example in some situations. In other situations it is not. For example, consider a recursive-descent parser. There are many different...

IMHO, the ideal syntax for MRV is what Python and Go do: v1, v2 = some_func(p1, p2, p3) This is nice and clean. C++ can't currently do this as cleanly....

@pazns Verbosity != clarity. As a concrete example, consider any legal document. Or the C++ standard itself. Or Java. An abundance of syntax is as distracting as a paucity. I...

Do you want me to abandon this PR and create several commits, each adding more parallel functionality so you can see them one at a time? I guess I don't...

I have broken up the algorithms into several different files to (hopefully) make it easier to review the code.

I personally have a use for this: I build several documentation packages at once, one after the other, and then copy them to our documentation server. They reference each other....