ok or true?

[Shawn Pearce]

Very good point.  I find it interesting the port BIFs return true only.
If they have an error to signal, they exit(Error) instead.  Which means
its unnecessary to actually check their return values.

I'll try to keep your point in mind, if I return true, the only other
value should be false, making it a perfectly valid boolean function.

Vance Shipley <vances@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> I would expect a function which returns true to have only
> one other possible return value; false.  It is my observation
> that most functions which always succeed return true.  I
> would find a function which returned true or {error, Reason}
> to be quite odd.

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