From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: About to give up...
Date: 1998/08/08
Date: 1998-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.902580795@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3k94kl30y.fsf@mheaney.ni.net
Matthew says
<<One thing you can do in C is to explicitly cast away the return value
(void) func (params);
This at least tells your reader that you didn't accidently ignore the
return value.
>>
which is of course a standard idiom, that is always used by C programmers
when they want to discard such a value :-) :-)
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-06 0:00 About to give up i96danma
1998-08-06 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-07 0:00 ` i96danma
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Dan Mattsson
1998-09-05 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Dan Mattsson
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-08-16 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 i96danma
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Oliver.Kellogg
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Peter Amey
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Tom Moran
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