Re: About to give up...

[Oliver.Kellogg@vs.dasa.de]

In article <6qbtl7$v6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  i96danma@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> The first steps were no problem and I quickly got used to the API. The worst
> problems though were [...], and the fact that you always have to take care of
> the return values, even if you don't care. And it seems as Win32 returns a lot
> of values that are, most of the time, unimportant.

I once did a Terminal_IO package  (with procedures like
Put_At (Row,Col, Text)) where the underlying system calls
were functions that always returned a success/error status.
Since this is not usually interesting, I introduced a body-global
status flag and a function in the Terminal_IO package spec,
Get_Last_Status. That way I could turn the Terminal_IO
user level functions into procedures, and one could call
Get_Last_Status for finding out the status of the last call if
need be.

-- $0.02, Oliver

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