Style question: returning error values from functions

[Monte Goulding]

> > Is it possible to throw from an external? I haven't done any external
> > development yet although as soon as I see some decent docs I'll 
> > probably
> > jump in as I know some C.
> 
> I'd be inclined to include a glue stack library with an external.  It 
> would handle the sugar coating for problems like passing data with 
> nulls.  In many cases it would do most of the work and use the external 
> for getting to OS services.
> 
> In this case, the glue library can throw for its own work and then 
> throw for external errors flagged in globals.
> 
> Dar Scott
> who didn't really answer your question

That sounds like a reasonable solution. 

Cheers

Monte