Re: Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call'

[j_del_strother@hotmail.com (Jon)]

Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<usmyhtkji.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
> j_del_strother@hotmail.com (Jon) writes:
> 
> > I'm using the GCC compiler, and I'm getting the error 'Expect
> > procedure name in procedure call'.
> > Anyone tell me what the heck this means?
> 
> Probably exactly what it says; the compiler thinks you are making a
> procedure call, so it is expecting a procedure name. Instead, you've
> given it something else; a variable, package, or function name (to
> name just a few of the possibilities). Or maybe you didn't mean to
> make a procedure call, and you've got the wrong syntax.
> 

Ahhh...OK, that makes more sense.  IMO, the error is badly worded...

I was calling a function without using it to assign to a value.

Which leads on to my next question...
Can you call a function & ignore its return value?  I'm using a lot of
Win32 calls, all of which are written as functions rather than
procedures, and I'm getting a huge mess of useless temporary variables
just to allow me to call the functions.