Re: Re[4]: Why some people have not upgraded

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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

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