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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Subject: Re: Completion of error handling
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:55:03 +0100
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>
> If you never notice, then that's a good thing, right? :)
>   

Well, this depends on the kind of potential damage that will come from
the ignorance of function return values.
It might hurt more when corresponding effects can not be ignorable any
more because they became so obvious.

Regards,
Markus