Op woensdag 13-08-2008 om 02:52 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef leledumbo: > > Joost van der Sluis wrote: > > > > And there's no way the compiler can detect this. > > > I don't think so. The compiler understand that a procedure doesn't return a > value while a function does (i.e. trying to return a value from a procedure > causes compile error). I haven't checked how compiler formats each > function/procedure in the PPU but I think there should be an information > whether it's a function or procedure. So, I think it's possible to detect if > a function call is assigned to a variable or not.
Ok, so I misunderstood you. You want that the compiler complains if you don't assign the result of a function. While that can be done, I don't think you want that. This functionality is used far too often, and those warnings would become very annoying. Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
