[Coco] Expert C programmer wanted

[Alex Evans]

On Feb 11, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Roger Taylor wrote:


> At 06:07 PM 2/11/2005, you wrote:

>> On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:02 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:

>>

>>>> Is Pascal like Basic09, in that functions can't return values?  If

>>>> not, then

>>>> you should be able to return a single value (a success/error code 

>>>> for

>>>> example).

>>>

>>> Functions in Pascal must return a value, IIRC.

>>

>> Yes, in Pascal, functions return values, and procedures do not.

>

>

> If you look up the definitions of function and procedure in most 

> programming books, functions return something while procedures (I 

> guess) do not, but I just call'em procedures even if they do something 

> to a pass-by-ref variable.


That is quite true.  What I am referring to are the keywords procedure 
and function in the Pascal language.  Pascal unlike many languages 
defines functions and procedures separately.

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