Elegant ways to return multiple values from a function

Question

It seems like in most mainstream programming languages, returning multiple values from a function is an extremely awkward thing.

The typical soluti

Answer 1

PHP example:

function my_funct() {
    $x = "hello";
    $y = "world";
    return array($x, $y);
}

Then, when run:

list($x, $y) = my_funct();
echo $x.' '.$y; // "hello world"