Re: of possible interest

[Frederic Praca <frederic.praca@freebsd-fr.org>]

Le Sun, 07 May 2006 17:56:15 GMT,
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> a écrit :

> On Sun, 07 May 2006 14:54:47 +0200, Ludovic Brenta
> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
> 
> > 
> > - 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...
> 
> 	begin
> 		dummy := 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.

Fred