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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of style
Message-ID: <2027@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 02:09:34 GMT
References: <1989Nov23.170838.10376@phri.nyu.edu> <1989Nov26.000042.2976@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.UUCP (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <???> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
}In article <???> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
}>Would you be confused and/or grossed out if you saw:
}>	if (something)
}>		perror ("message"), exit(1);
 
}I think the correct word is "wary"...
}If you do perror-and-exit a lot, package it up as a utility function.

   Or as a macro:

     #define COMPLAIN_AND_DIE(msg) perror(msg),exit(1)

     if (something) COMPLAIN_AND_DIE("message");

John Hascall