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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,\r
+ Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
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+Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:\r
+\r
+>>\r
+>> Outside of this patch, but in some of the next messages, adds functions\r
+>> _notmuch_message_has_term() and _notmuch_message_has_term_st(). Perhaps\r
+>> the _notmuch_message_has_term() could be left unimplemented?\r
+>\r
+> yeah, i can do that, though i have to say it's programmatically\r
+> convenient to have a simple boolean test that defaults to some value if\r
+> there was an error.\r
+\r
+Maybe this is obvious, but we rely heavily in the notmuch code base on\r
+NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS==0, so the following idiom is pretty common,\r
+\r
+ status = notmuch_status_returning_thing (... &out);\r
+ if (status) {\r
+ /* error path */\r
+ }\r
+\r
+ /* otherwise, deal with out */\r
+\r