Good style for multi-valued returns

[Cameron Laird]

In article <m3hfcwh6rd.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
>
>> Let me guess:  folks generally pass tuples for small and
>> determinate-in-number multi-values, and dictionaries other-
>> wise, 'cept some do it all with tuples.  Accurate?
>
>I've always used tuples; I wouldn't have thought of something that
>returns a dictionary as return multiple values.
>
>Any reason for asking?
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"Reason"?  You want a *reason*?  Well, sure, there
are plenty of those:  it's time for me to be more
of a producer than consumer (of methods); I've been
thinking about decomposition; I didn't notice any-
thing in Guido's style guide; I'm eager to learn
more; ...

Particular thanks to the three people who've already
gently written to remind me that what I really want
in the complex-and-big case is to return an *object*
(but why do you all call it a class?  To my ear,
it truly sounds like a confusion to say, "class",
rather than, "instance of a class").  I think I still
have special cases where I want to move dictionaries
around, but I'm learning that their proper domain is
much smaller than I used to believe.
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