This always forces us to return a single parameter in case I need to return multiple, say a List and a String. This restriction is not there in function arguments.
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This always forces us to return a single parameter in case I need to return multiple, say a List and a String. This restriction is not there in function arguments.
This problem is what functional languages such as F#, haskell etc. attempt to address. The problem is that in hardware, a function’s return value was originally returned via a CPU register, so you could only return a single value. C syntax passed on this legacy and C++ (and C#, Java) also inherited this.