Re: C# Flow Control

> I think the issue in the original post is the confusion of the term
"return
> codes" versus "return references".
>
> Exception should be used to replace "return codes" where a return code
> defines a type of unexpected problem (DBMS is down, network unreachable).
> For other flow control you can still return something of value - its just
> not called a return code necessarily :-)

Possibly. When I think of return codes, I think of a method returning an
int, then a dirty great switch statement to decide what to do.

Tim Haughton


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