Turing Get Statement Timer

[Insectoid]

You can't declare a procedure inside a loop.

[QuantumPhysics]

Is a procedure in turing the same as a function in C/C++?

[Raknarg]

Yes. In turing, they have both procedures and functions, but the difference is taht a function will produce a result at the end, where a prodecure simply ends. I believe in C++ when someone wants to accomplish that they make function that just results 0 and does nothing with it.

It's not necessary, but I think the creators of turing thought it would make more sense to make separate options.

[2goto1]

The thought process for Turing having functions and procedures as separate entities can be summarized in the function help documentation found at http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/doc/function.html.

Here is the relevant portion:
In principle, a function (1) should not change any variables outside of itself (global variables) or (2) should not have var parameters. In other words, it should have no side effects. The original implementation prevented (1) and (2) and thereby prevented function side effects. Current implementations of Turing do not enforce this restriction.

Some languages today still actually enforce this type of rule. But I'm only familiar with database languages enforcing this type of rule today, typically for database query optimization / performance purposes.