Re: Influence of Lua on Go?

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, steve donovan
> <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This page in fact makes the assertion:
>>
>> "Lua took multiple assignment and multiple returns from function calls
>> from CLU."
>>
>> But this is a [citation needed] ;)
>
> R. Ierusalimschy, L. H. de Figueiredo, W. Celes,
> The evolution of Lua,
> Proceedings of ACM HOPL III (2007) 2-1–2-26.
> (http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf)
>
> section "4. Birth":
>    ...
>    From CLU we took multiple assignment and multiple returns from
> function calls.
>    We regarded multiple returns as a simpler alternative to reference
> parameters used
>    in Pascal and Modula and to in-out parameters used in Ada; we also
> wanted to avoid
>    explicit pointers (used in C).

Excellent! There we go, then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_%28programming_language%29#References

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