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

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On 2022-11-14 00:55, Greg Ewing wrote:
> 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.
> 
But if it's an expression where it's expecting a statement and it's not 
a call, then it's probably a bug.