> This isn't really different from the multiple values approach.
If you ignore most of what I said then it’s not.
> Is that multiple values? (Yes.) Or a wrapper type? (Also yes, it's a tuple, a collection of values.)
It’s neither type-safe nor unambiguous.
> This works
For low value of works. Which I guess is all you can ask for in a dynamically typed langage (eg Erlang uses this pattern to fairly good effect, but it has very good support for it).
But it should not be confused with an actual solution to the issue. It can make things less bad (again given good support for this pattern which Python does not have), not actually good.
If you ignore most of what I said then it’s not.
> Is that multiple values? (Yes.) Or a wrapper type? (Also yes, it's a tuple, a collection of values.)
It’s neither type-safe nor unambiguous.
> This works
For low value of works. Which I guess is all you can ask for in a dynamically typed langage (eg Erlang uses this pattern to fairly good effect, but it has very good support for it).
But it should not be confused with an actual solution to the issue. It can make things less bad (again given good support for this pattern which Python does not have), not actually good.