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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: some trivial questions?
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:20:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:41:40 +0100, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> On 11/06/2017 11:37 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> 
>> Not really.  I'd prefer that both things be called "procedure".
>> Then we wouldn't need the terms "function" and "subprogram". But we'd
>> still need a distinction between procedures that return a value and
>> those that don't.
> 
> Yes, but then we'd have something like "procedure" for both,
> "value-returning procedure" for those that return a value, and
> "non-value-returning procedure" for those that don't return a value.
> "Subprogram", "function", and "procedure"
> seems preferable.

How about "function" and "void function"?

(ducking and running away)
-- Brian