Subject: Re: ignoring return values from functions.
To: NetBSD Userlevel Technical Discussion List <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/01/2001 09:05:12
woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> This is a pretty simple rule -- and there are tools to help you be
> pedantic in following it (and many widely documented reasons for
> being so pedantic). Why mess with a good thing?
Because it's ugly, and it doesn't really help you write good
programs. And I don't care what people did at the time of Version 7.
/Johan