Re: calling function inside procedure call

[Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>]

On Friday, October 3, 2014 12:50:33 PM UTC-7, Stribor40 wrote:
> my skeleton code looks something like this.....

> procedure Something

>    --some declarations
>    --
>    --

>    function myFunction (a: in String) return Boolean;

>    function myFunction (a: in String) return Boolean is
>        begin
>           Put(a,3);   
>           return true;
>        end;

> begin
> ...
> ..
>   myFunction("Hello World");
> ...
> ..
> 
> end Something;
> 
> i am getting error "cant use function myFunction in a procedure call.
> 
> How would I make a call to myFunction?

By doing something with the function result.  E.g.:

    B := myFunction("Hello World");

where B is a Boolean variable.  Ada doesn't let you just call a function and ignore the result.

                             -- Adam