> and passing in pointers is uglier It's not so bad. It means you can be really consistent about returning error codes from every function in the exact same wa

> and passing in pointers is uglier It's not so bad. It means you can be really consistent about returning error codes from every function in the exact same way. This is one of the very few things I actually like about the Win32 API. If only they used the same type of error codes in every section of the API.