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

Often in php I'll use a referenced input:

public function Validates(&$errors=array()) {
   if($failstest) {
      $errors[] = "It failed";
      return false;
   } else {
      return true;
   }
}

That gives me the error messages I want without polluting the bool return, so I can still do:

if($this->Validates()) ...