Is it possible to return multiple values from a function?

[thewebchat]

For example, using the AVS language, would it be possible to write a function that takes in as input one integer and returns its reduced factors? The only thing I can think of is to use some kind of recursion hack and return a string.

[Gavino]

It's not possible to do this directly in the language, so you have to resort to some sort of trick. Returning a string of some kind is about the best you can do. However, if the number of outputs is fixed and each value is limited (say to 255), you could construct a binary integer, eg output1 + output2*256 + output3*(256^2).

[Myrsloik]

Assign the results to global variables?