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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Stuff and some confusion
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In the 'general programming' sense the difference between declaration and
definition of a routine can be illustrated by:

procedure Y;  -- declaration of Y

procedure Y is -- definition of Y
begin
  ...
end Y;

i.e. declarations bring the identity and form of an entity into being and
the
definition states what the entity does.

the ARM has things to say about these words in the Ada sense all of its own
and are covered in other replies. :-)

chris.danx <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Now I need you're help again with a general programming question.  I'm
> confused as to the difference between 'declaration' and 'definition'.  I
> remember reading somewhere that many computer programmers don't know or
> confuse them.  I also don't want to put up inaccurate stuff up on the web,
> and proliferate the wrong definitions and add to the situation.