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David Emery a �crit :
> A good compiler should issue a warning in the following situation:
> 
> declare
>     return_value : error_status_codes;
> begin
>     return_value := some_function (parameters);
>     do_more_computations (parameters);
> end;

> noting that "return_value" is never used.  That's usually a hint of a
> problem.

GNAT does that.

Pascal.

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