# from Christopher J. Madsen
# on Sunday 16 March 2008 23:37:
>Christopher J. Madsen wrote:
>> * Otherwise, a pre-hook must return 'continue'. Returning anything
>> else is an error. (This is to prevent hooks that just happen to
>> return the value of their last expression from causing mysterious
>> problems.)
>
>I've just realized that this has been misunderstood. I wasn't saying
>that this is how a plugin reports an error. You use "die" for that.
Understood.
> I was saying that if a pre hook returns anything other than 'done' or
> 'continue', then the plugin manager reports "Invalid return value
> from ...". In other words, it's a bug in the plugin, which the
> plugin manager will catch and report.
I'm still not convinced that the return values have enough significance
to warrant that kind of stricture. At least, not for ACTION_* methods.
For all other methods, the continue/done return really seems like it
would get in the way, but I still don't have a clear picture of how
pre_/post_ hooks for regular methods would be used (and/or made to
work.)
--Eric
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