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Posted: **Thu May 16, 2019 9:49 am**

Most commands that change the position pointer of a LinkedList return the pointer to the new element. Unfortunately this is not the case for:

PopListPosition()
ChangeCurrentElement()
Even if the new element is specified in the parameter here, a return value would be useful for a better code and for reasons of symmetry to other list commands. The parameter can e.g. come from a stack and should be stored in a global pointer after changing the position pointer.

For the same reasons, the commands

ClearList()
FreeList()
ResetList()

should have a return value of zero so that a pointer can be deleted by the return value.

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2019 6:55 pm**

+1
Agree, if possible. They already seem to return some integer values (???) which maybe are being used somehow internally...

But I like the idea. If you have the opportunity to return a convenient value, do it.

I like to return #Null on freeing too, like:

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*MyObject = CreateObject()
; do some stuff
*MyObject = FreeObject(*MyObject) ; now #Null

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ReturnValue for PopListPosition() + ChangeCurrentElement()

ReturnValue for PopListPosition() + ChangeCurrentElement()

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