On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 18:04 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 04:59:52PM +0000, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote: > > Ah, I see what you were saying now. It looks like it will work to > > me if > > you think it is better stylistically. > > Yeah, having a function return an error *and* an I/O parameter at the > same time is more complicated and error prone instead of when you > have > a single retval and only input parameters. > > I'd say. Yea, I agree it's better this way, and at first I just missed your point. By "if you think it's better", I just meant that if someone told me to do it the other way I wouldn't die on the hill.