Returning none

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at compaq.com
Thu Sep 2 18:19:30 EDT 1999


Jonathan Giddy wrote:
> 
> For example, FileObject.close needs to be a function to return the exit
> status of a popen process.  Hence, every file close will need to be
> assigned (or used in some way).

That's why I said it would be a different language.
The libraries would need to be redesigned on the basis
that throwing away return values was no longer to be
done lightly, and it would break all existing programs
which did that.

Greg




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