Re: Idea: Extension of function / return syntax.

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 5 January 2013 13:36, Daniel Carrera <address@hidden> wrote:
> I know that Octave is happy to extend MATLAB's syntax if that makes it
> a better language. I would like to suggest an extension of the
> "return" keyword so you can write functions like this:
>
> function momentum( mass, speed )
>
>     return  mass * speed
>
> endfunction
>
>
> In other words, instead of specifying the function outputs on the
> first line, as it is normally done in MATLAB, the return function
> could receive the set of values to be returned. This would make Octave
> consistent with many other languages like Python and Perl.

This could make sense... I'm cautiously in favour of such syntax.
Syntax additions are very delicate, however, so we need to be very
careful to make sure this doesn't break more things than what it
fixes.

- Jordi G. H.