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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: calling function but ignoring results
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 11:26:30 +0100
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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.