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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:33:30 +0000
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rob pike wrote:
> By tradition, the return value of functions report what they did,
> not what they considered doing.

But if (part of) the purpose of the function *is* to probe,
returning the result of the probe is consistent.