What if I have a method that returns a CGFloat and that method could not find an expected number, I would like to return something like NSNotFound, but that is an NSInteger.
Whats the best practice for this ?
You could use not a number (NaN
).
See nan()
, nanf()
and isnan()
.
However for these issues, where there is no clearly defined non-value (it's worse with integers), then I prefer to use the following method semantics:
- (BOOL)parseString:(NSString *)string
toFloat:(CGFloat *)value
{
// parse string here
if (parsed_string_ok) {
if (value)
*value = parsedValue;
return YES;
}
return NO;
}