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Interesting.
I'll design something and implement ASAP.

Thanks!

Adrian Aisemberg
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Matt Hickford <
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wrote:

CLAP applications ought to use return codes to mimic Unix commands. For
comparison

$ git party ; echo $?
git: 'party' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
1

Whereas with a CLAP app

Verb 'party' was not found
0

$ git status ; echo $?
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
128

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Another thought: what happens if my verb method returns an int?

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Fixed in 3.9.
Returns 1 or 0, according to whether an error occurred or not.

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Thanks Adrian

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All verbs are void by design, however, I'll consider changing it to allow returning values, although it will be a conflict to returning an int according to success/failure.

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Void verbs is sensible. If I want to exit with a specific code I will use Environment.Exit

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