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Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line

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On 30/08/2015 00:46, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> But in C especially, people prefer that even procedures return some sort
>> of value, perhaps a status. With the consequence that some try to cram
>> several such calls into a single expression.
>
>    The distinction between functions and procedures is used,
>    for example, in Pascal.
>
>    In C, there are only functions, but we are still using the
>    Pascal notions.
>
>    Pascal was intended for teaching, and indeed for students,
>    the distinction between functions and procedures is helpful.

You get distinct functions and procedures in Ada as well, and other 
languages that haven't been touched by C syntax and idea. Ada is not a 
teaching language and has been well designed, so there must have been a 
good reason for it.

Everywhere that you have:

   a;
   b;
   c;

and want to collect all those statements into a single routine, then 
you're creating a procedure, not a function.

(I can understand that some languages delight in unifying different 
concepts, so that for example everything has a value; Algol68 for one, 
where you need to use 'void' a lot whenever something doesn't fall into 
that pattern. In real programming it's a bit different.)

-- 
Bartc

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  Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-28 21:25 -0600
    Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-08-28 23:56 -0400
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    Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-29 16:03 +0100
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                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-29 15:59 -0700
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                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-30 13:22 +0100
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                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-08-31 13:38 +0100
                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-04 04:18 +0000
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                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-29 23:43 -0700
                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-30 11:47 -0700
                Re: fprintf with /r/n outputs only one line Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-30 13:18 -0700
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