1. In a computational device providing a programming environment, a method for ignoring one or more output arguments of a function in the programming environment, the method comprising: storing the function in a memory, the function defined to return a plurality of output arguments; providing code, wherein the code includes a caller calling the function and further wherein at least one of the plurality of output arguments as set forth in the caller is designated by a user with a predefined designator; and processing the code such that the function is inhibited from producing a value for the at least one of the plurality of output arguments, based on a location of the predefined designator in a user-specified order of the output arguments of the function.