Youre right, it definitely isnt a large amount of work. Its the annoyance of the work and the leaky abstraction of "multiple returns" that _look_ (and sort of a

Youre right, it definitely isnt a large amount of work. Its the annoyance of the work and the leaky abstraction of "multiple returns" that _look_ (and sort of act) like its a tuple. In addition to channels, it also comes up if you want to store an array of return values.