>Return value
>If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
>If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
>winapi
Return value
Joshua Martinez
Brayden Kelly
What's the problem here?
C does this too
William Cook
*throws exception*
Jeremiah Baker
It works entirely opposite to how the Unix shell works (0 is success, nonzero is failure where each number corresponds to an error type) and makes no sense.
Dylan Smith
That's fucking retarded. Using raw integers for error codes is bad enough, but using 0 for failure is even worse.
Nicholas Nguyen
1 is true, 0 is false, which one sounds more like success to you?
Jace Cook
The most likely situation is that you have one kind of success and many kinds of failure. How many kinds of zero and how many kinds of nonzero values are there?
Ethan Long
0, for no error. Also, it returns an integer value not a boolean value.
Hunter James
Posix has the same shit with errno.
Joseph Morris
Errno is the biggest mistake in C.