OpenEuphoria

Re: [Windows] Associate file extensions with a program

• Posted by Michael Raley <thinkways at yahoo.com> Oct 13, 2004
• 483 views

> [snip]
> > >   return 0                                -- success
> > PS: Please do not return False to indicate success.
> 
> He didn't. He returned *zero*. I'm sure you are not saying that every
> 0 is also a 'false', just as every 1 is not a 'true'. Just because
> RDS chose to represent a falsehood with integer zero, doesn't mean that
> every use of zero implies a falsehood, nor every use of a one implies a 
> truth.
> 
> Truth and Falsehood are not numbers. RDS represents these concepts by
> using numbers, but that is a mere convenience. 

almost every commandline tool I use returns an error level of zero 
to indicate success. It seems broadly adopted.