Re: Can we add an error state variable?

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > I don't like the name "ERRORNO" very much -- the naming is contrary to what 
> > one would expect -- according to the docs it should be called 
> > GPVAL_ERRORYES.
> 
> Heh.  The problems of abbreviation :-)
> 
> That was supposed to be short for "error number".
> The standard name in C or Unix is "errno".  But gnuplot's variable
> would not take on the same values as C's ERRNO, so I thought a
> slightly different name was appropriate.
>
>> I would vote for just a simple name GPVAL_ERROR.

Aha, GPVAL_ERRNO would be fine, C programmers know this name well. Just not 
GPVAL_ERRORNO.

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