I copied from SML and defined a procedure "ignore":

     let ignore k =
       let _ = k in ()

   so now I would write:

     ignore (f x y); ...

How about instead of writing:

        (f x y) ; (g z w) ; ...

write:

        let _ = (f x y) in
        let _ = (g z w) in
        ...

In fact, I found it scarcely necessary to use ";" these days even when
I was doing imperative programming.

Cheers,
- Ching Tsun

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