From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: calling function but ignoring results
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:26:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sbhgth$r7a$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 69a59fdc-72bb-4202-99fc-d776530de653n@googlegroups.com
On 29/06/2021 20:25, Matt Borchers wrote:
> It is not very often that ignoring a function result is okay, but I have run across many instances of the following block structure in code over the years:
>
> declare
> dont_care : BOOLEAN;
> begin
> dont_care := foo( x, y );
> end;
declare
Dont_Care : constant Boolean := foo (x, y); -- Uppercase is so pascal!
pragma Unused (Dont_Care); -- GNAT specific
begin
null;
end;
I would put into a procedure, especially if it's a binding to C.
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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 [this message]
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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