When does void make code less readable?

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> One thing which *can* be very handy is variants of the standard routines
> which are "guaranteed" to work because they abort the program if the
> standard routine underneath returned an error.

I much prefer to have a low-level routine return an indication to its
invoker when it cannot do its function for whatever reason.  Strategy
should be managed at higher levels.