[Tfug] 64 bit file server?

[t takahashi]

On 7/8/05, Stephen Hooper <schooper at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> That is understandable, but it did not properly connote the meaning that
> I was trying for (which was that the "/mod" is a single operation that
> returns both pieces of information).

only a few languages can return multiple values as opposed to a
list or vector.  most people don't know about it.  it is efficient
and sometimes elegant.  certainly it feels wrong to have to,
say, decode the time into year, month, date, etc. using
multiple calls.  memoization is too kludgey a fix.

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