🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <42mta4$2ku@solutions.solon.com>, seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:
: I think you've just never read a word of what anyone's said here.
I did, but you answer an argument that I nevver wrote.
The same applys for all the other answer s that I saw.
: Consider:
: 
: _lib_startup() {
: 	exit(main(magic, magic));
: }
: 
: exit(int x) {
: if (x == 0) exits("okay");
: else exits("not-so-ok");
: }
: 
: Boom.  We have adapted to a system where we exit with strings.
: The library can go further, but who cares?  We've
: shown that the library can translate.  Tell us, most omniscient,
: how this doesn't work.
The error is that the library indeed translated.  We hav prevented the
programmer who uzes this system from uzing "exit" for _other_ exit-status
that he knows is to be had on this system.

My concluzion form all this is that if a programmer wants to return
useful exit-status, too bad.