The problem with this is that it leaves things without any obvious, canonical, name. You have to read a bunch of code to figure out what's going on and a change

The problem with this is that it leaves things without any obvious, canonical, name. You have to read a bunch of code to figure out what's going on and a change in the values returned may result in subtle errors. Coffeescript has a really neat destructuring operator for this kind of thing: qux = () -> {blah: "a", blorp: "b", zoop: "c"} {blah, blorp, zoop} = quz()