Re: [9fans] Booting on slow CPUs

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:07:49PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> You need to poperror() on the path where there's no error, thus:
> 
> 	if(waserror()){
> 		/* no poperror on this path ... */
> 		return nil;
> 	}
> 	poperror();
> 
I guess I ought to look at waserror(), but surely the above is totally
counter-intuitive?  Maybe a poor selection of function names?

> but
> 
> 	if(!waserror()){
> 		/* do some stuff... */
> 		poperror();
> 	}
> 	/* more stuff */
> 
> The second is idiomatic for ``do some stuff, stopping early
> if you encounter an error; either way, then do more stuff.''
> 
Sorry, I'm being obtuse here, but perhaps you want to rephrase your
description: would

"if no error, do some stuff; irrespective, thereafter do more stuff"

be more accurate (if slightly mangled English)?

++L