# The following was supposedly scribed by # Ovid # on Thursday 16 June 2005 02:56 pm:
>> I'm not against new modules at all. I'm also new here. But I >> What do you think is "right" on that example? Croak? >> Return >> 1 on both cases? Return 0 on both cases? > 1 please see the "why_order_matters.txt" >Asking for "foo" and then asking for "no foo" >doesn't make a lick of sense to me. What does that mean? How about: "increment foo, but by-the-way start at zero"? > cause the program to halt with a loud "what the hell do you mean?" At which point the user says "what the hell do YOU mean!?" (and pounds the (what key do you pound when you're mad at a command-line program? (maybe rm $(which program)<ENTER>))) --Eric -- "Because understanding simplicity is complicated." -- Eric Raymond --------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------