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| From | Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Call by Result |
| Date | 2011-06-10 11:59 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <baq4v6dca53n4ag3lt96434vji6s70rikn@4ax.com> (permalink) |
| References | <nkc3v61jg7i21l7n482ce561dq9fdogg3m@4ax.com> <4df23fe3$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> |
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:01:36 +0100, RedGrittyBrick
<RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> wrote:
>On 10/06/2011 07:03, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
[snip]
>> I am writing a simple preprocessor. I have a few spots where a
>> string needs to be parsed. I want to call something like this:
>> String ReturnString="";
>> boolean DidItWork=GetString(ReturnString);
>> if (!DidItWork)
>> // too bad
>> It is not acceptable to have a special String value mean failure. I
>> want the method to be able to return any potential string.
>I think Stephan Ram's answer is roughly what I would do.
>
>String returnString;
>Thagomizor thangomizor = new Thagomizor();
>thangomizor.thangomize();
>if (!thangomizor.didItWork()) {
> throw new TooBadException();
>} else {
> returnString = thangomizor.getString();
>}
Lengthy code (compared with what it could be) to no additional
benefit.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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