VB 6 Call requirement and restriction

Question

I have several class member functions that look very similar:

Public Function ProcessSomething(ByVal X as Currency, ByVal Y as Long) As Boolean

Yet some of these function the IDE is forcing me to use the call statement on and other not.

Can someone give me some understanding here?

the ones it wants you to use CALL with are not functions, but are subs as in `Public Sub DoSomething` — Ňɏssa Pøngjǣrdenlarp, Feb 14 '14 at 18:41
Probably worth checking: http://stackoverflow.com/q/15040060/11683 — GSerg, Feb 14 '14 at 18:43
all of them are function. some require the call statement others do now. — garaber, Feb 14 '14 at 18:43
see explanation [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/10262247/15639) — MarkJ, Feb 19 '14 at 22:50

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '14 at 18:44

The Call statement is required if you are calling the Function and ignoring the return value, or if you use the (..) brackets.

Example, in the following invokation, we are invoking ProcessSomething but not taking the return Boolean (essentially ignoring it.)

Call ProcessSomething(currencyObj, 1.2345)

If you want to invoke the function and ignore the return value, and still not use Call, then you would invoke it as follows. (notice (...) are missing ).

ProcessSomething currencyObj, 1.2345

VB 6 Call requirement and restriction

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