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Johnny J.20-Sep-18 6:57
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John R. Shaw20-Sep-18 8:35
John R. Shaw20-Sep-18 8:35 
The difference between arrogant and confident is success. So, I guess over confidence could be labeled as arrogance. Wink | ;)

I once inherited a C code base and discovered, to my surprise, that most of the functions declared an 'int' return type, but there were no return statements for success. WTF | :WTF: A successful result would have been whatever happen to be in the AX register after the call was complete. The compiler was not happy and generated lots of warnings. Frown | :(

I went through an uncounted number of functions and added the return statements. The compiler was very happy, no errors or warnings. Smile | :) But, the code would no longer work. D'Oh! | :doh:

I decided that I had more import things to do than fix code that worked, so I dropped the whole idea and lived with the warnings. Blush | :O Besides, 80 percent of the time they were not checking the return type any way. Sigh | :sigh:
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