On Dec 18, 2012, at 13:03, Joshua Root wrote: > On 2012-12-19 05:51 , Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> It's confusing enough that we already have two equivalent ways to exit out >> of a portfile: "return -code error" which I think is what we prefer, and >> simply "error" which some portfile authors are using instead. We don't need >> yet a third way to do the same thing. > > We don't define either of those, they're vanilla Tcl. The difference is > that "error" raises an error in the current context, while "return -code > error" raises it in the calling context (as though the caller had called > "error" in place of the procedure that is returning). > > See "man n error", "man n return".
And yet portfiles use them interchangeably. Which should we be using? Or does it matter? _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
