On Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 19:15:10 UTC, seany wrote:
Now, I want, should the function be not successful in doing
what it intends to do, to return a boolean value of false, to
ZZ, un fortunately ZZ is already a string[] (so i want liek a C
style fopen -like function, that , although called with the
syntax: file *f = fopen(balh, "bla"); can set f to be false)
Is this possible in D?
You can wrap return type in Variant
(http://dlang.org/phobos/std_variant.html) but it is inefficient,
weakens typing and considered a bad approach in natively compiled
language. Better approach probably is to use null as an indicator
(as string[] is a reference type) or throw an exception.
