Re: Re[4]: Why some people have not upgraded
- Posted by Alex Chamberlain <alex.chamberlain at tiscali.co.uk> Jan 03, 2006
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D. Newhall wrote: > > akusaya wrote: > > > > >> Could it be something 'big' like ignoring function results? :D > > p> No disrespect intended, aku, but that does blow my mind that you think > > p> that 'big'. It just seems so tiny against the include file problems and > > p> non-blocking i/o... > > > > Yes, I also think that ignoring function results is a tiny thing, but > > I consider it as 'big' when seen from RDS point of view, because I > > think RDS is always busy implementing difficult things but not the most > > simple things... > > > (snip) > > Well, in this case RDS probably won't implement it because it's a bad idea. > A function returns a value so, naturally, if I forget to catch this value I'll > be trying to make it do somthing it shouldn't be doing and isn't permitted in > the language so I would of course expect an error to occur. I'd have to agree, but I would like a void variable that uses no memory to discard the value, but still error if I've simply forgot to assign it to something! Alex