On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 17:20:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
getValue();It's not unusual to discard the return value when calling a function. Though a getter isn't a good example of this, of course.
Oops. I somehow had it in my head that your example function was getValue(), rather than thing(). Anyway, my point was that the return value is not always used when calling a function with side effects.
