Write statements in function

[Patrick D. Rockwell]

Is it considered bad form to put write statements in
functions?

[Bill Leary]

Post by Patrick D. Rockwell
Is it considered bad form to put write statements
in functions?

That would depend on what they're there for.

- Bill

[Patrick D. Rockwell]

Usually, I only put them into functions during the debugging phase of their development. I guess there are a lot of other reasons to do so. :-)

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <f756e1f1-c90f-4714-84ff-f9975c2a87f

Post by Patrick D. Rockwell
Is it considered bad form to put write statements in
functions?

Ideally, a function will have no side-effects, usually.

So it is fine to have a function whose chief purpose is to write, and it
is fine to have a function which calculates and returns an answer
without writing anything; but a mixture is often best avoided.

Similarly for procedures.