Re: close return value

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 09:25:24PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree escreveu:
> On 2002-07-19T14:48:44,
>    "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[e-mail]> said:
> 
> > Of course, checking errors in order to handle them sanely is a good
> > thing.  Nobody is arguing that.  What I am arguing is that failing to
> > check errors when they can "never happen" is wrong.
> 
> Actually, checking for _all_ even remotely possible and checkable error
> conditions (if the check doesn't incur an intolerable overhead) is a very very
> important requirement for writing high quality code; even if it isn't "fault

If the function is not to be checked for errors, lets make it return void and
be done with it. There are few _exceptions_, but one has to understand the
meaning of that word 8)

- Arnaldo