I would call them subroutines, since that's the long form of "sub"
-y
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:47 AM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I use subs like ducks use water. It is about time
> I learned what to properly call them.
>
> I come from Modula2 and Pascal (as well as bash), "functions"
> return a value outside the declared parameters and "(sub)routines"
> only can modify values through the declarations parameters.
>
> Sort of like
> function: sub add($a, $b){return $a+$b}
> routine: sub add($a, $b, rw $c){$c = $a+$b}
>
> In Perl, what is the proper terminology?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
> I no longer use "rw $c". I always use "return".
> The guys told me this was the best way on the
> chat line, so I adopted it.
>
