[Gretl-devel] Re: cnameset (rnameset): no error on mismatch

Am 16.01.2021 um 19:03 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Sven Schreiber wrote: > > Actually I'm a bit uneasy about that, even though it's documented. It's > common in libgretl C code, and in many library APIs, to return 0 on > success or a non-zero code on failure. It's then up to the caller to > check the return value and decide what to do in case of error (which > might or might not be to abort execution). But it's not common in > scripting languages, including hansl. Generally, one expects that if a > command or function fails, execution of the script will halt, unless one > takes special measures ("catch" in hansl). Different paradigms, but > we're mixing them up, to a degree. > > So I would be in favour (not right now, just before release, of course) > of revising the relatively few gretl functions that do the "return an > error code" thing: let them actually fail on error, like the great > majority of functions. Sounds good - I guess that was also the reason why it didn't occur to me that the function would signal an error like that. I can collect of affected functions, unless you already know which ones would be in it?