From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 04 14:13:28 2004
From: Harri Porten <porten () froglogic ! com>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 14:13:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: A new helper class
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410041611070.367-100000 () alster ! froglogic ! com>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:

> Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I prefer the traditional C-way of representing
> this:
> int ret;
> ret>0 -> true
> ret==0 -> false
> ret<0 -> error/exception

Funny. I'd interpret an value of 0 as meaning success in a C api. So it
seems like this convention is not *that* safe ;)

Harri.