On Monday, 23 February 2015 at 12:30:55 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
value and error code. C got this fairly wrong, Go gets it fairly right.
It's the one feature about Go that makes Go code look really ugly... So I guess this is a very subjective issue. Posix is actually pretty consistent by returning "-1", even as a pointer, but if you don't write pure Posix code it becomes confusing.
