Good style for multi-valued returns

[Will Ware]

Cameron Laird (claird at starbase.neosoft.com) wrote:
> Let me guess:  folks generally pass tuples for small and
> determinate-in-number multi-values

Yup, this is what I've always seen others do, and done myself.
This makes it easy to take advantage of tuple-wise assignments
from return values, e.g.:

	x, y, z = multiValuedFunction(arg1, arg2)

The dictionaries-for-larger-cases idea sounds good, but it almost
sounds like you're solving a different problem. My inexperienced
guess is that tuples would offer better performance than dictionaries,
but a 62-element tuple wouldn't be particularly self-documenting.
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