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

Even if you ignore the wonderful newer destructuring assignment Moss Collum mentioned, JavaScript is pretty nice on returning multiple results.

function give7and5() {
  return {x:7,y:5};
}

a=give7and5();
console.log(a.x,a.y);

7  5