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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: still problems with ?:
Summary: good technique
Message-ID: <9504@alice.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 04:47:39 GMT
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i would second doug's comment.
a technique i have found useful (but not usable all the time) is for
routines to return a char *. on success this is 0, on error it is the actual
error message. simple to use, e.g.

	if(e = poot(args)){
		fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", e);
		exit(1);
	}