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Re: [using gcc book] ch10.11 Certain Changes We Don't Want to Make
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Well, the paragraph does need to justify the policy decision not to
> include this feature, so:
>
> * Warning when a non-void function value is ignored.
>
> We feel that there are legitimate reasons to ignore function
> return values, and that writing @code{(void)} before every
> function call whose result is intentionally ignored makes the
> program harder to read for little benefit.
Clear & to the point. Very good.
My only quibble is the first person plural -- would it be fair to say "The
GCC development group" instead of "we"? The GNU style guidelines I've
been asked to go by discourage any use of the first person, so a big part
of what I've been working on has been rephrasing sentences this way.
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