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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:34:13 +0000
To: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] About SUCCESS/FAILURE
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)


> On 24 Dec 2014, at 17:22, Levi Morrison <levim@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> Hmm. This thread doesn't seem to mention it, but why must failure be
> negative? I understand the non-zero part but not negative. Aside from
> the fact we probably have code relying on it to be negative at this
> point is there some other reason?

Hey Levi,

I believe it's a convention among C APIs: 0 for success, negative for some e=
rror=20=