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Re: How to discard return value of a function?
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jpkotta |
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Re: How to discard return value of a function? |
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Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:59:20 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Monday, August 20, 2012 7:13:35 PM UTC-5, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <88a339ab-f737-40d1-8f3a-7cd6b66c585e@googlegroups.com>,
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> jpkotta <jpkotta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:52:21 AM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
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> > > (progn (YOURFUNCTION ...) nil)
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> >
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> > You can also use advice, but (progn ... nil) is probably preferable.
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> >
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> > (defun foo ()
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> > (interactive)
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> > t)
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> >
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> > (defadvice foo (after modify-return-value activate)
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> > (setq ad-return-value nil))
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> If he advised search-forward to return nil, that would break lots of
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> other things. He just wants to ignore the return value in one
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> particular place where he calls it.
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> --
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> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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> Arlington, MA
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> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
Yeah, I realized that after I posted. I tried to delete the post but I guess
it got posted twice for some reason.