Return value from getopt?

[Brad Roberts]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:26 PM, Jarrett Billingsley <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Good point. I hadn't thought of that. For some mad reason I keep
> expecting the documentation to be enough! :-)
> 
> 
>>> If the second case, please can the function signature be changed to
>>> return void, and an exception thrown on error?
>> It probably should..
> 
> In that case, I'd like to request of Walter that this be changed.
> Otherwise, all of my code which uses getopt will have to do lots of
> ugly error checking of the return code. Moreover, if it fails, there's
> no obvious way to find out why it failed, wheras an exception could
> carry that information.

... bugzilla. :)