Hi

This is a really good advice. If you download the ESUG CD there are 
article of Erwing
Juanita and she presents exactly this solution to this problem.

Stef

> Just my 2 cents...
>
> It's rarely overkill to create new class, like NetworkRequestResult.
>
> It could contain a status and any accompanying messages.  As far as I 
> can
> tell, the only real overhead in creating another class, is the metal 
> energy to
> keep track of it...
>
> Delbert
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 13:37:34 +0200
>> From: Ingo Hohmann <ingo at 2b1.de>
>> Subject: [Q] Newbie - Multiple Return Values
>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-
> dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>
>> Hi to all again,
>>
>> for a network protocol I want to return to values from a function - 
>> the
>> payload of a message, and wether the message was tagged as being
>> successful or not.
>>
>> What would be the best way to return those values?
>>
>> - I thought about an instance variable for one of these, but there 
>> might
>> be multiple message pending.
>>
>> - Using Exceptions for the an unsuccessful message would be misusing 
>> the
>> exception mechanism.
>>
>> - And overloading the returnvalue - either an 'this was an error' 
>> value
>> _or_ the payload does not particularly please me either.
>>
>> - Creating a new Class for this on the other hand seems to be quite an
>> overkill.
>>
>> What's the best SmallTalk way to handle this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ingo
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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