From kde-core-devel  Thu Mar 30 20:35:24 2000
From: Mirko Sucker <mirko.sucker () unibw-hamburg ! de>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:35:24 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: symbolic return values
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:20:38AM +0200, Hummel, Timo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use return values in the style FUNCTION_INVALID or such
> > (#defined or consts) instead of returning numbers (0, -1, -2 etc). Is this
> > the standard style or do most KDE functions return numbers instead of
> > symbolic return values?
> 
> Use an enum, I'd say, and make the function return an int, out of that enum.
This is done in libkab, for example, see addressbook.h, and really makes
sense. Much more readable code. 
--Mirko.
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