Chris Angelico wrote:
So how do you handle something that, by its nature, has BOTH side effects and a return value?
A Pascal purist would probably say that you should make it a procedure, and use var parameters to pass back any results. In the case of something like the unix write() call, this may actually make more sense anyway, because in Pascal you can't just ignore the return value of a function if you don't want it. Passing a result parameter that you don't use is probably less obtrusive to read than assigning to a variable that you don't use. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
