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On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 22:37 +0200, Frederic Praca wrote:
> Le Sun, 07 May 2006 17:56:15 GMT,
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a =C3=A9crit :
>=20
> > On Sun, 07 May 2006 14:54:47 +0200, Ludovic Brenta
> > <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> >=20
> > >=20
> > > - Java allows programmer to ignore the return value of functions.
> > >   What if the return value was important?  This is unsafe.
> > >
> > 	Off-hand -- this is a wash... Ada requires one to /account
> > for/ the presence of the return value, but it can still be just as
> > easily ignored...
> >=20
> > 	begin
> > 		dummy :=3D some_function(some_argument);
> > 		--	dummy is never made use of; effectively
> > ignored end;
> Yes but in this case, everybody knows you explicitly ingore the
> return value, you didn't forget it by mistake.

Does anyone know how relevant this is in practice,
given in mistakes per product, or increased development
cost?