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This very issue is one of my pet peeves of working in Java/C, because extract-function refactoring is severely inhibited by having only 1 return value, and it forces you to pass in mutable values ...

Computer programs can use data, evaluate if-then conditions on the data and use extremely fast iterative loops to perform these functions. In software programs, these functions get organized into ...