On Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 7:06 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:

> Peter Stephenson wrote on Mon, 06 Aug 2018 10:29 +0100:
> >
> > Are you suggesting avoiding looking at the return value, but looking at
> > what its effect would have been at the point where you would have looked
> > it?
>
> Yes.
>

There are a few cases where it is desirable to return nonzero even when
matches have been added, and also the reverse.

>