Mon 2003-01-13 20:34, Gerrit Kuehn (2:246/4020) wrote to smapi hackers:

 > Can someone explain me, why functions in e.g. sq_read.c and sq_write.c 
 > have such strange handling of their return values?

Scott Dudley is to blame!  He wrote the initial version of MsgAPI 12 years
ago.  The idea of SMAPI was to be backward-compatible with the original
MsgAPI as much as possible.  Unfortunately this means the code isn't
"clean".

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