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.