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Subject: Re: calling function but ignoring results
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Thanks for the feedback.  I guess I have to live with five lines to accompl=
ish what one should do regardless of the numerous variety of ways to accomp=
lish this.  I mostly appreciate the wordiness of Ada for the clarity it off=
ers to the code maintainers, but in some cases the extra wordiness offers n=
othing.

Related to this, I really appreciate the new parenthesized expressions as i=
t offers a clean way to declare simple functions.  GNAT 21.2 was just relea=
sed 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 :=3D foo( x, y ));

but it seems likely that an expression returns a value and would not be all=
owed in this instance.