But it seems strange that programming languages were not designed to support multiple return values in a more "natural" way. Because functions are mathematical constructs which perform a ...

Another tenet of functional programming philosophy is not to modify data outside the function. In practice, this means to avoid modifying the input arguments to a function. Instead, the return ...

Bash functions, unlike functions in most programming languages do not allow you to return a value to the caller. When a bash function ends its return value is its status: zero for success, non-zero ...