> On May 18, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > >>>> - tuple as first class citizen >>> Sorry, no. I know you really want this, but this is similar to the >>> function-type-vs-functional-interface issue. We made our choice when we >>> did records -- records are our tuples. >> I'm hunting around deconstructor and methods that returns several values. > > I know that, and I'm telling you these are not the droids you are looking for.
If only we had tail calls. Then instead of writing (int q, int r) = quotientAndRemainder(m, n); whatever we could write (using my preferred syntax for a mandatory tail call in Java) goto quotientAndRemainder(m, n, (int q, int r) -> whatever); (the method quotientAndRemainder would of course tail-call its third argument), with no need of tuples or even records to get multiple values out of a method, and then everyone would be happy, right? RIGHT? :-) :-/ :-P —Guy
