[haXe] Just a suggestion

[Nicolas Cannasse]

edA-qa mort-ora-y a écrit :
> Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
>> My idea was to have an error when a value without side effect is 'lost',
>> meaning that it's not captured by any parent expression. That means that
>> all cases that currently make sense will not be forbidden by this change.
> 
> Perhaps you could make this just a warning at first, otherwise I'm sure
> I have lots of code which would suffer from this error. (The old C
> pattern that functions with side-effects could nonetheless return a value.)
> 
> Or, perhaps better, could you at the same time introduce a keyword
> called "ignore" which could always be assigned to, such as:
> 
> 	ignore = a.funcWithReturn();
> 
> 
> Curious though, can you actually determine now whether a function/value
> has a side-effect or not?

All calls are presumed to have side effects, so only "values" are
concerned here.

Best,
Nicolas