From: Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: calling function but ignoring results
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 21:59:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0cc35778-1d06-4e7d-853c-498735faf627n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sboe5c$5q5$1@gioia.aioe.org>
Thanks for the feedback. I guess I have to live with five lines to accomplish what one should do regardless of the numerous variety of ways to accomplish this. I mostly appreciate the wordiness of Ada for the clarity it offers to the code maintainers, but in some cases the extra wordiness offers nothing.
Related to this, I really appreciate the new parenthesized expressions as it offers a clean way to declare simple functions. GNAT 21.2 was just released today and includes declare expressions. I don't have the compiler yet, but I wonder if this would work:
procedure FOO( x, y ) is (declare b : BOOLEAN := foo( x, y ));
but it seems likely that an expression returns a value and would not be allowed in this instance.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-29 19:25 calling function but ignoring results Matt Borchers
2021-06-29 19:52 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-06-29 20:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-06-30 6:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-07-09 18:14 ` G.B.
2021-07-09 19:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-07-10 2:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-07-12 15:56 ` Shark8
2021-06-30 10:17 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-07-01 18:07 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2021-07-02 7:32 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2021-07-03 11:35 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2021-07-03 11:46 ` Gabriele Galeotti
2021-07-03 19:11 ` Simon Wright
2021-07-04 7:22 ` Simon Wright
2021-07-06 23:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-06-30 10:26 ` Luke A. Guest
2021-06-30 19:31 ` Simon Wright
2021-06-30 23:06 ` Rod Kay
2021-07-01 0:06 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-01 3:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2021-07-03 10:42 ` Stephen Leake
2021-07-03 1:22 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2021-07-03 4:59 ` Matt Borchers [this message]
2021-07-03 7:37 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-07-03 7:42 ` Gautier write-only address
2021-07-03 7:57 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-07-03 7:46 ` Gautier write-only address
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