Re: request for review: Doing direct file I/O in Emacs Lisp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:23:12 +0200
> 
> How can you find out which error happend?  There are already three
> different cases where the function just returns nil, and the caller would
> have to repeat the very same tests to find out which error path was taken.

You are right, we do throw errors in other file-related primitives, so
I guess we should do that here as well.

> Argument type checks should just use CHECK_FOO.

Agreed.