# Why are there all these strange stumbling blocks in Julia?

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**Tags:** syntax, python\
**Created:** [January 7, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-there-all-these-strange-stumbling-blocks-in-julia/92644 "2023-01-07T18:19:30Z")\
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> [@DNF](#):
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> `return (a, b, c, d) `

I would write generally, without thinking much: `return (; a, b, c, d) ` , then you can use it any of the multiple ways:

```julia
(; a, b, d) = foo(x1) # correspondence by name
c = foo(x2).c
e = foo(x3).[2]
f = foo(x4).[:d]
g, _, h, j = foo(x5) # correspondence by position

```

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