From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T23:49:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: "print usage_msg, exit 1 if error_flag" does not workO

Hi --

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:

> Hmmm. I always get tangled with these.  Bracketing things doesn't help
> here (I tried it).  I'd have expected the or to "short circuit" after
> the print succeeded..... Oh, but print returns Nil, is that it?  Hmmm.
> I'm thinking in Shell I suppose!  Or Icon...

You could make a virtue of necessity and decide that lines like this
should start with ! to draw attention to themselves:

  error_msg = "error"
  error = true
  ! puts error_msg and exit 1 if error


:-)


David

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