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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 12:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: calling function inside procedure call
From: Stribor40 <ikamzic@gmail.com>
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Date: 2014-10-03T12:57:55-07:00
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On Friday, 3 October 2014 15:56:14 UTC-4, Adam Beneschan  wrote:
> On Friday, October 3, 2014 12:50:33 PM UTC-7, Stribor40 wrote:
> 
> > my skeleton code looks something like this.....
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> 
> 
> > procedure Something
> 
> 
> 
> >    --some declarations
> 
> >    --
> 
> >    --
> 
> 
> 
> >    function myFunction (a: in String) return Boolean;
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> 
> 
> >    function myFunction (a: in String) return Boolean is
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> >        begin
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> >           Put(a,3);   
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> >           return true;
> 
> >        end;
> 
> 
> 
> > begin
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> > ...
> 
> > ..
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> >   myFunction("Hello World");
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> > ...
> 
> > ..
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> > 
> 
> > end Something;
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> > 
> 
> > i am getting error "cant use function myFunction in a procedure call.
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> > 
> 
> > How would I make a call to myFunction?
> 
> 
> 
> By doing something with the function result.  E.g.:
> 
> 
> 
>     B := myFunction("Hello World");
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> 
> 
> where B is a Boolean variable.  Ada doesn't let you just call a function and ignore the result.
> 
> 
> 
>                              -- Adam

sweet thank you so much