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List:       openjdk-lambda-dev
Subject:    Re: Multiple return
From:       Per Bothner <per () bothner ! com>
Date:       2014-01-22 22:12:17
Message-ID: 52E04241.3070403 () bothner ! com
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On 01/22/2014 01:36 PM, Jed Wesley-Smith wrote:
> Either style solutions force you to deal with error conditions, whereas a
> multiple return does not.

People may be talking about two different but related things:
(1) Multiple return values.
(2) Multiple return "continuations", including how to
encode and detect error returns.

Handling Either is useful for (2).
Returning Pair (or in general: tuples) is useful for (1).
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	--Per Bothner
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