In a language that has exceptions, there is no good reason to return bool here…
In a language that has exceptions, there is no good reason to return bool here…
Also, almost all of that is written in C, which is a successor to B, which is a simplified version of the Basic Combined Programming Language. There was never an A.
I can see it going both ways. Talking about execution times, this would be an exaggeration, but then, these memes always are.