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@ -694,8 +694,9 @@ So for instance::
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Examples of these second 'convenience' definition are library routines such as ``cbm.STOP2`` and ``cbm.GETIN2``,
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that only return a single value where the "official" versions ``STOP`` and ``GETIN`` always return multiple values.
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**Skipping values:** you are allowed to omit assignments of one or more values by putting ``void`` as the assignment target.
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One of the cases where this is useful is with boolean values returned in status flags such as the carry flag.
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**Skipping values:** Instead of using ``void`` to ignore the result of a subroutine call altogether,
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you can also use it as a placeholder name in a multi-assignment. This skips assignment of the return value in that place.
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One of the cases where this is useful, is with boolean values returned in status flags such as the carry flag.
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Storing that flag as a boolean in a variable first, and then possibly adding an ``if flag...`` statement afterwards, is a lot less
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efficient than just keeping the flag as-is and using a conditional branch such as ``if_cs`` to do something with it.
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So in the case above that could be::
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@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ What if we were to re-introduce Structs in prog8? Some thoughts:
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Other language/syntax features to think about
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- allow returning multiple values from normal (non-asmsub) subroutines as well? Once that is done we can also clean up more of the library routines that now struggle to return multiple values.
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- add (rom/ram)bank support to romsub. A call will then automatically switch banks, use callfar and something else when in banked ram.
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challenges: how to not make this too X16 specific? How does the compiler know what bank to switch (ram/rom)?
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How to make it performant when we want to (i.e. NOT have it use callfar/auto bank switching) ?
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