On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:53:22AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David Cantrell
> >Mmmm, more special cases. From a user's (ie, a module author's) point
> >of view, isn't it easier to remember "exit(0)" than to remember
> > exactly what message to spit out?
> Easier to remember, maybe. But the challenge isn't memory (we usually
> just look things up, right?), it's education. If you have to educate
> about the unnatural exit(0) *and* that makes the code clunky, it would
> seem like a better idea to educate about something that isn't so
> creaky.
Exiting with a 0 status would seem to be the least clunky solution.
exit(0) means "Stop now and claim to have succeeded". It means that
in every perl program and, indeed, every non-perl program.
Better to educate them about something clean and easy to remember than
to educate them that there's a special case for this (for which they'll
have to either remember an exact string or look it up every time).
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