Maybe this limitation can be avoided by having an mv-returning function A set a global variable "mvFunctionReturner" equal to the function A and a mv-receiver can check that mvFunctionReturner is set according to the function it called expecting multiple values. Does this scheme miss any cases?
What about anonymous functions?
I like this idea, and I think it can be made to work. Have you looked at whether Linj tries to do multiple return values? I suspect someone somewhere has thought about and possibly solved this problem before.
Vladimir
Anyway I have thought a little bit about this and I thought I would pass it off to the rest of the Parenscripters as a thought experiment. Assume you can do a lot more semantic analysis than Parenscript currently does and transform the compiled source however you want. But any compiled functions must still be able to be treated as normal Javascript functions and all and only functions that should return multiple values appear to return them.
Cheers, Red
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