Comment by bmandale
> and I don't take 'pseudocode' as an excuse
They write the non-pseudo variant later. There, the return value is a pointer and the check is against NULL. Which is fairly standard for C code, albeit not always desirable.
> and I don't take 'pseudocode' as an excuse
They write the non-pseudo variant later. There, the return value is a pointer and the check is against NULL. Which is fairly standard for C code, albeit not always desirable.
Correct, it is fairly standard C code. It is not Parse, Don't Validate.