From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: calling function but ignoring results
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:17:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sbhgdg$ikd$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sbftm5$1gn$1@dont-email.me
On 29/06/2021 20:52, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>> declare
>> dont_care : BOOLEAN;
>> begin
>> dont_care := foo( x, y );
>> end;
>
> This sort of thing usually indicates a design problem.
Or interfacing with C.
>
>> Is there a Ada 202x feature to support calling functions and ignoring
>> the result?
> If you want to use a language that allows this, then you probably
> shouldn't be developing S/W.
>
That's literally every C programmer then.
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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 [this message]
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
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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