On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 19:37, Michal Moskal wrote: > This ain't C -- for errors you should get exception, not -1. Not so. According to microsoft's guidelines, it depends on the error - if it's an error that you expect to get often, there should be a return code to indicate it. This is because of the performance cost of exceptions.
There are various examples of this, such as Hashtable returning null if you ask for a non-existent key and string.IndexOf() returning -1 if the thing you are searching for is not found. -- Iain McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
