procedure help

[Schaef]

I was just wondering in a procedure what the things in the bracket are after proc and the name of the procedure and why the variables do not need to be assigned values

[CjGaughan]

SUBPROGRAMS

A part of a program (a subprogram) can be given a name. There are two kinds of subprograms:

1) Functions
2) Procedures

There are subprograms that are predefined (provided as part of the Turing language).

These include:

-sqrt -- a predefined function that gives the square root of a number.

randint - a predefined procedure that generates random integers

A function takes a value, such as 3, and produces a result, such as 9. In this example, the function produces the square of the number it receives; so when it receives 3 it produces 3**2 = 9

example:

function square (x : real) : real
result x**2
end square

for i : 1 .. 5
put i : 2, square (i) : 4
end for

We say that the square function is called and that actual parameter i is passed to formal parameter x.


AN EXAMPLE FUNCTION

The function shown here takes a name such as "fred jones" and produces a result string with the last name first : "Jones, Fred"




basically, the part in the brackets is the kind of variable that will be used for input.


here is an example code (calculates area of a circle):

code:

const pi := 3.141592654 function circleArea (rad : real) : real     var area : real     area := pi * rad ** 2     result area end circleArea var r : real put "Enter the radius of the circle: " .. get r put "The area of that circle is: ", circleArea (r) : 5 : 2 var choice : string put ""

dont know if this helps...but oh well