Re: Question concerning object-oriented programming

In article <56dbfe0a-4ef7-41f8-8155-273c49cfc71f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx says...

I have the standard that "all methods, that do not return a value,
shall return bool true or false, true on success, false on failure. If
they think they always succeed or are at a current stage of
implementation stubs, they may return truth".

This doesn't necessarily provide a useful consistency as it seems to suggest that methods that do return a value are
either always successful, or that there is always some value they can return that signifies failure. This will not be
the case if the method is a function with a domain covering the entire space of the type to be returned.

Mike
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