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From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)
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Subject: Re: Compiler error: 'Expect procedure name in procedure call'
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j_del_strother@hotmail.com (Jon) wrote in message news:<445cd6bf.0211041157.1537dfd5@posting.google.com>...
> Which leads on to my next question...
> Can you call a function & ignore its return value?  I'm using a lot of

No. Well...to be precise you can't ignore the return value until after
you have done something with it.

> 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.

What I always do for OS calls is wrap them in an Ada routine that
raises an execption for bad statuses. While I'm at it, I convert
between Ada strings and C strings, turn C 0/null defaults into Ada
procedure overloads, etc.