On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 12:26:08PM +0000, Andrea Faulds wrote:

> We could do this, but for the longest time we've made all functions have some 
> return value, even ones which don't explicitly return one (they return NULL). 
> I think it'd be better not to change this. I expect IDEs and such could earn 
> you about it, though.

All *existing* functions have a return value. That would not change.

If someone makes one of their functions void then where they use it could not be
where a value is needed. So: expect it in new code; but in 5 years time that
code will be mature.

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