1. RE: Calling functions as procedures
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Oct 06, 2003
My Spanish keyboard (not Latin-American) does not have ~. But it is so
common you need to use this sign, that many guys are accustomed to type
Alt-126 .
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Calling functions as procedures
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> I'd like to use something like ~my_function(a, 3, 6). '~' is not used
> anywhere else, and quite definetely shows the fact that you are ignoring
the
> return value. It's certainly more visible than _. The one problem might be
> the location, or existence, even, of the key on alternate language
> keyboards. I wouldn't know where or how it would be different, though, as
I
> don't have one of those keyboards.
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> >From: Louis at cwshop.com
> >Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
> >To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> >Subject: Calling functions as procedures
> >Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 18:45:50 -0400
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> >
> >I agree. I don't think allowing functions to be called as procedures
would
> >increase debugging time. After all, if you needed the returned value,
the
> >problem would be obvious in other ways, I would think.
> >
> >Compromise (if you MUST): Make it a warning, not an error.
> >
> >Louis.
> >
> >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> >On 10/4/2003 at 9:07 PM Al Getz wrote:
> > >...
> > >there is still yet another better idea: allow functions to
> > >be called without returning a value so they act like procedures.
> > >This would solve the problem without using any new var or syntax.
> > >A warning could be issued possibly.
> > >
> > >This wouldnt help the private variable warning problem, but
> > >i still like it.
> > >
> > >Take care for now,
> > >Al
> >
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