[jcifs] SmbException Supercedes boolean?
Michael B. Allen
mballen at erols.com
Tue Oct 30 07:19:48 EST 2001
Ok. We'll return void then.
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 09:39:25AM -0800, Rob Wygand wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I recently encountered this, and I think it's best to return void. We
> had some functions that returned boolean, but always threw exceptions on
> errors, and what we found was that some people caught the exceptions and
> did nothing with them, only using the return value of the function.
> This, obviously, caused confusion and errors. It's just a much clearer
> contract when void is returned.
>
> rjw
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