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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: When does void make code less readable?
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 08:07:40 EST
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> One thing which *can* be very handy is variants of the standard routines
> which are "guaranteed" to work because they abort the program if the
> standard routine underneath returned an error.

I much prefer to have a low-level routine return an indication to its
invoker when it cannot do its function for whatever reason.  Strategy
should be managed at higher levels.