Subj : Re: Dartmouth BASIC to C
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Mon Aug 08 2005 01:30 pm

In article <42f60872$0$14679$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, 
usenet@jdh30.plus.com says...
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > In article <VT6Je.126397$5V4.13471@pd7tw3no>, JSmith@mail.net says...

> >>      if(D == 0.0)
> >>      {
> >>          printf("no unique solution\n");
> >>          exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> >>      }
> > 
> > This isn't a good use of exit().  The program hasn't failed, the data
> > has.  Since the data error was detected, the program can congratulate
> > itself on a successful run.
> > 
> > (Technically the data is embedded in this program, but that is
> > presumably something you will be changing over time.)
> > 
> > So you should just print the above message and return normally.
> 
> Don't compilers return FAIL when the program they are run on is incorrect?

I don't know - I don't use command-line software!

But my point is that the program is correct - it determines that the 
data has no unique solution.

- Gerry Quinn

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