Modern C++ How To Write a Function That Returns More Than One Value Like magic, tuples make the impossible possible. Yep, we're talking here about one little corner in the Standard Template Library ...

Forget invoking the compiler. Just build into your application a complete C or C++ compiler. Use this to compile the string to native code in the program's heap and return the address of the code.

For the types of functions you're talking about (ie. functions that return multiple values, of different types) I see it slightly differently than you seem to: I see the need/use of out params as ...