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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:13:35 +0200
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> But it is very easy to write a conversion function that does do the check.
> If you have an exceptional requirement, then write the code for it.
> The general purpose library should do the most convenient thing for the
> majority of applications.

except that it's not very useful.  iirc the original rune code did error
returns, but it was realised to be pointless, so they return the
rune error char.