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 Posted by Ian on 06/18/66 11:32 
Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote: 
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> What I'm looking for is the best suited general return value for cases where 
> an operation could not be successfully completed as expected and the 
> function is not able to fix the error by itself and the error is of a nature 
> where "drastic measures" like throwing an error or an exception would be 
> inappropriate. 
>  
Isn't this situation precisely where exceptions are appropriate, rather  
than 'drastic'.  They're certainly cleaner than any other mechanism. 
 
Ian
 
  
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