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Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: python-acme: Generate and install documentation.


From: Andreas Enge
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: python-acme: Generate and install documentation.
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:36:44 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:46:50PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> I didn't realize that copy-file's return value is unspecified. I've
> found that it does tend to make the whole build fail when the source
> file doesn't exist, so it must be returning #f in that case, right?

Not necessarily. Many things with side-effects just fail with an error
when there is a problem. So in many cases, the question of whether one
needs to explicitly return #t in the end is mainly aesthetic.

Andreas




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