error(), message() and aerror() are very useful.

>I want to establish an internal convention for notification of error condition to calling program that is practical and consistent with others, but find there is no clear pattern.
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>In a control valid, a return .F. or 0 signals an error. In other places, I have seen the return used to indicate the error number and in those cases 0 means no error. I understand a convention in C is to pass a parameter that will return the error number.
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>What do you all use?
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>TIA,
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>Alex