Why Does ParaView Documentation Reverse the Conventional Return Codes for Success and Failure?

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I am quite used to the convention of representing a “success” with “return 0” and “failure” with “return 1”.
Do you know why this concept is reversed in the documentation at util.vtkAlgorithm Module — ParaView/Python 5.12.0-776-gfc5a2391cc documentation ?
If I am correct, the examples you provide uses “return 1” for “success” and “return 0” for “failure”, which is confusing to me.
Please comment.

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VTK’s own API uses the “reverse” convention. ParaView inherits that. I believe that the original development was on Windows quite a bit where the APIs are indeed “0 for failure” a lot of the time.

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