Thread: Return void or success/fail?

Plenty of two cents here I know, but mine are:

I only return a status variable when using Dynamic Memory Allocation, when accessing files, or any other time when errors may be beyond the control of the coder.

I return an integer, 1 or 0. This works the same as BOOL and looks prettier to me (I like pretty things

I think the advantage is small, in that your error checking code is shorter, i.e.

Code:

   if(!MyFunction())
   {
      // do error handling
      ...


// as opposed to

   int success;
   MyFunction(success);
   if(!success)
   {
      // do error handling
      ...

The latter is easier to read although it makes more 'if' nests in the function/ procedure itself.
I guess it really is just preference.

dt