In code, list.clear doesn't throw error - it's just ignored

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Nov 13 19:55:28 EST 2022


On 14/11/22 1:31 pm, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2022-11-13, DFS <nospam at dfs.com> wrote:
>> But why is it allowed in the first place?
> 
> Because it's an expression, and you're allowed to execute expressions.

To put it a bit more clearly, you're allowed to evaluate
an expression and ignore the result.

-- 
Greg



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