alt Hacker NewsC allows struct returns, and C++ allows something quite close to what you've written verbatim. But in 1989, there was less of a focus on error handling; most code wasn't checking errno at all, so why spend time returning it to every caller?
C allows struct returns, and C++ allows something quite close to what you've written verbatim. But in 1989, there was less of a focus on error handling; most code wasn't checking errno at all, so why spend time returning it to every caller?