Re: Return or not to return, that is the question

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On Wed, May 30, 2007 7:42 am, Darren Whitlen wrote:
> Chris Boget wrote:
>>> If there is no need to return a value then I don't do
>>> so. However, the function is going to process something,
>>> and surely you should check that the processing has
>>> succeeded or failed?
>>
>> This is precisely the point I was going to make.  Unless an argument
>> is
>> passed in by reference for manipulation within the function, I can't
>> think of a reason why you wouldn't want to return a value; true or
>> false
>> at the very least.  You call a function to perform, well, a
>> function.  I
>> would think that you would want to know whether or not the process
>> within the function was successful, yes?

I guess if you're using lots of OOP and try/catch/throw, you'd end up
very rarely having a function return a pass/fail value...

Just depends on coding style, I guess.

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