Python grammar..

[Mats Wichmann]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:05:21 +1000, "Delaney, Timothy"
<tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:

>> "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.992393599.3573.python-list at python.org...
>>     ...
>> > way to do it - a subroutine may or may not return a value, at its
>> > discretion, and I should be able to ignore any returned value.
>> 
>> Yes, but if I were designing a language today, I think I would
>> request you to be EXPLICIT about "ignoring the return value" --
>> explicit is better than implicit.  It IS an occasional cause of
>> errors in Python (particularly with newbies) that an expression
>> statement's value is silently and implicitly ignored...
>> 
>> 
>> Alex
>
>So you would prefer that functions whose return value is ignored must
> be called with a keyword ... such as in VB
>
>	call aFunction()
>
>Personally, I absolutely hate this.

Seems like you could do it the other way around...add a bit of
something to the function def to say "this is a procedure".  Should
you actually want to do such a thing... (it may be the path to the
dark side, a la "static final private void deranged lunatic spam()"
...)