From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: What evil would happen?
Date: 14 Jul 2003 05:32:18 -0500
Date: 2003-07-14T05:32:18-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sEnU4h6wyksM@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnbh4r8u.hn.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no
In article <slrnbh4r8u.hn.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>>
>> That presumes:
>>
>> 1. There is no valid meaning for returning a null username.
>> 2. There is no desire to return _two_ constrained values.
>> 3. There is no desire to return a non-Boolean constrained value.
>>
>>> You have to
>>> do if my_result then anyway so there is really not much difference to
>>> the code. However I would have concidered throwing an exception in the
>>> case the parsing failed.
>>
>> That presumes:
>>
>> 4. The only use for a constrained value return is to indicate
>> failure.
>
> Well if not then use a record with username and the boolean variable and
> return that
Nobody has claimed there was no way to program around this obstacle.
The claim under discussion was that there is "no use" for the capability.
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2003-07-11 19:51 What evil would happen? Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-11 20:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-12 12:30 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-12 17:17 ` Martin Dowie
2003-07-13 1:46 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-13 15:29 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-11 20:08 ` chris.danx
2003-07-12 4:31 ` Nick Roberts
2003-07-12 12:26 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-12 12:39 ` Preben Randhol
2003-07-12 13:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-07-12 13:22 ` Preben Randhol
2003-07-12 19:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-07-14 8:43 ` Preben Randhol
2003-07-14 10:32 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2003-07-14 11:05 ` Preben Randhol
2003-07-14 11:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <slrnbh53ir.48d.Organization: LJK Software <zSeTW0M3CTPU@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2003-07-14 17:31 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-13 15:26 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-13 17:28 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-07-13 22:35 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-14 0:06 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-07-13 22:36 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-14 3:01 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-14 4:41 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-07-14 23:32 ` [ot] languages & academia was " chris.danx
2003-07-14 9:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-07-14 17:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2003-07-14 18:15 ` tmoran
2003-07-15 8:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-07-11 21:26 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-12 12:38 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-16 0:07 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-16 8:11 ` Preben Randhol
2003-07-14 18:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-14 20:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-15 2:32 ` Alexander Kopilovitch
2003-07-15 8:19 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-15 17:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-07-16 0:22 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-07-16 8:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-07-15 5:16 ` Kenneth Almquist
2003-07-15 11:31 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-18 8:23 ` Wojtek Narczynski
2003-07-18 14:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-07-19 0:55 ` Robert I. Eachus
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2003-07-11 23:04 Beard, Frank Randolph CIV
2003-07-12 12:46 ` Wojtek Narczynski
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