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From: gentle@cnj.digex.net (Gentle)
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Subject: Re: Using procedures
Date: 8 Dec 1994 12:40:29 GMT
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On 6 Dec 1994 18:59:32 GMT, Bill Heiser (heiser@bu.edu) wrote:
: I didn't notice anyone asking anyone to "do a student's homework".
: Did you?  Sorry if you interpreted the question that way.  I see
: nothing wrong with going to the net asking for help on how to
: approach a problem.  There's no difference between doing that  
: and going to a fellow student or the professor.  The only difference
: is that I see the professor for 3 hours per week, whereas
: the net is here 24x7.  Furthermore the whole point to homework is
: to help the student learn the material.  It's not an exam!

  Well, here's probably the kind of advice you were asking for.

Take related procedures and put them into a package together.  The package
specification holds just the declarations of the procedures, while the body
holds their bodies (eew, sounds morbid).  Anyway, you can "with" in that
package from a  main program unit (or another package), and be able to call
the procedures using dot notation (like Package.Procedure(parms...)).
  Hopefully this helps.

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