alt Hacker NewsI want some defined way to tell the compiler that I am intentionally ignoring the result.
I encounter this when trying to do best-effort logging in a failure path. I call some function to log and error and maybe it fails. If it does, what, exactly, am I going to do about it? Log harder?
Yes.
When my database logging fails, I write a file that logs the database fail (but not the original log file).
When my file logging fails, depending on application, I'll try another way of getting the information (the fact that for file logging failed) out - be that an http request or an email or something else.
Databases fail, file systems fill up. Logging logging failures is extremely important.