On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:37:59PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > The conclusion after a good bit of discussion earlier this year was that > returning a status object for every synchronous operation was far too > heavyweight. Exceptions don't get a high vote as an alternative, but
Even if the success object (the common case) is a singleton? Implementation wise, is returning another reference to a singleton just one C pointer copy? (In which case, there is too much of a hit on interrogating the object?) Nicholas Clark
