Concept:Function
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A function is a control structure available in many programming languages, useful for naming and encapsulating common activities and pre-defining common calculations or other procedures.
The same sort of thing may go by different names in different programming languages.
See also
- [method] - object oriented
- subroutine - assemblers, among other things
- subprogram - Fortran
- procedure - sometimes applied to bits of code executed for their side-effects; that is, they return no value.