Is there a reason why functions in most(?) programming languages are designed to support any number of input parameters but only one return value? In most languages, it is possible to "work around ...

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 ...

The function is the soma and the input parameters are the dendrites and the single return value is the axon, and the possibility for multiple return values are all the terminals that branch of at ...