Return value from getopt?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Janice Caron" <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.14.1201077872.5260.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...

>
> If I had to guess, I'd guess that true means success and false means
> failure ... or possibly the other way round. But ... if either of
> these possibilities are true, then surely that violates the D
> principles established in the document

You don't have to guess.  The source code for Phobos is available for your 
perusal in every D compiler distribution.  And you're right, it just returns 
true for success and false for failure.

> If the second case, please can the function signature be changed to
> return void, and an exception thrown on error?

It probably should..