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From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-23 13:48:38


> I have never seen a good explanation of the difference between
"parameters"
> or "arguments" when passing data to functions, but "arguments" seems
equally
> as good. I just felt that the term "references to generic functions" does
> sound confusing since references must refer to something and the
terminology
> makes it sound like it refers to generic functions rather than the types
of
> data one passes to generic functions.

Alwais keep in mind following:

parameter comes from term "formal parameter"
argument comes from term "actual argument"

Gennadiy


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