Ignoring function return values (was: system.pas)
Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:07:37 +0200 (MET DST)
According to Frank Heckenbach:
> According to myself (Peter Gerwinski):
> > Ignoring a function's return value *is* a risky thing, because it
> > switches off an error-checking rule which is important for teaching.
> > [...]
>
> I'd still feel better with a separate switch because I try to avoid pointer
> arithmetic and such things in all but low level or very time critical code,
> but I usually have to ignore some function results.
Perhaps `--ignore-function-return'?
> (Perhaps with function
> overloading, this can be solved cleanly -- could it be possible then to have
> a function and a procedure with the same parameters???)
It would be difficult to implement. Having the separate switch, I think
it's not worth the effort.
Peter
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