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List:       lua-l
Subject:    Re: localized errors for allocating new objects
From:       M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja () cc ! helsinki ! fi>
Date:       2010-03-29 23:30:54
Message-ID: Pine.OSF.4.61.1003300223450.37833 () sirppi ! helsinki ! fi
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Drake Wilson wrote:

> The functions whose plain counterparts return pointers (pushlstring,
> newuserdata, newthread) would return NULL on failure; the functions
> whose plain counterparts return void (createtable, pushcclosure) would
> return 1 on success or 0 on failure.  Failure would push nothing,
> rather than nil

I'd prefer every such function to use the same kind of error indicator 
rather than a mix of pointers and integers.  Especially as I'm told 
lua_pushstring() does/will accept NULL as a valid argument and pushes 
nil then.

Joonas
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