On Thu, 14 May 2009 17:33:40 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 2009 17:21:02 -0400, Derek Parnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really. What could funcA possibly do with the index without the > string itself? If it's just a flag (uint.max or not), then funcA should > be: > > funcA(bool found, ...) > > and you call it with > > funcA(find(needle, haystack) < haystack.length, xyzzy) > > This doesn't cause any problems with people who use Tango, which returns > the length if not found. In other words, if you find yourself writing > code to "morph" the length into uint.max or -1, you are thinking about the > problem incorrectly.
Who said that I had control of how funcA() was implemented? -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell
