Re: Why assignment before return?

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 15:27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> I see your answer as "no, not really any reason, but also not worth
>> changing", which is fine by me :-)
>
> Yeah, that's a fair summary.  If it had been coded the other way
> to start with, I'd also say it wasn't worth changing, at least
> not until such time as we actually needed to.
>
> In the meantime, any added functions of the same ilk should definitely
> be made to look like the existing ones.

Yeah. I notice there are some functions that are not following this
pattern, but most are, so I'll adjust my patch with this.

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