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Re: Declaring a Function Before it is used

• Posted by Rolf =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=3DF6der?=3D <rolf at rschr.de> Oct 31, 2003
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Mike Nelson wrote:
> ...=20
> In Eu, I must code this as
>=20
> procedure bar()
> -- do highly technical stuff
> end procedure
>=20
> global procedure foo()
> -- do stuff
> bar()
> -- do more stuff
> end procedure
>=20
> Admittedly on reading foo, I have already read bar and "know what it does=
".
> On the other hand, as likely as not I can't really understand what bar do=
es
> until I see it in its context in foo.  If forward referencing were allowe=
d,
> I would put the general routine foo first and the implementation routine
> bar()  after it.
> ...

Mike, would it be possible to write your example code like this:


global procedure foo()
-- do stuff
bar()
-- do more stuff
end procedure

So, you have not (or would not) read bar() in advance of foo().

Have a nice day, Rolf=20


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