I agree that if i specify the member, then it works, but that is not my
intent. the problem is not returning a single value but rather
returning an array. My real application returns an array with multiple
members, i just chose to use the single-item array for illustration
purposes.

If you specify the member of the array, it seems to work OK.

In other words, in function1:

HOHO = v(0,0)


--ron