[erlang-questions] When to return {ok, Value} or just the Value

[Gianfranco Alongi]

For all of us that has touched upon Haskell and other white ivory
tower functional languages,
I would strongly encourage the good practice of pure functions which
are also easily testable.

I would not encourage flow control through throws when a returned
value is so much more appropriate.
For those who find themselves writing case-ladders, look into monads
from haskell and draw upon the power of the sequencer idea.

/G


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Max Bourinov <bourinov@REDACTED> wrote:
> Agree with Max Lapshin. I also use the same approach.
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> I think, it is a very good rule to choose whether function can be
>> tuple-return or throw-return:
>> if it has to work with outside world, than let is return {ok, Value} |
>> {error, Reason}
>> if it is "clean", than return Value or throw error is ok.
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