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14.1 Procedure declaration

A procedure declaration defines an identifier and associates it with a block of code. The procedure can then be called with a procedure statement.

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Procedure declaration

-- - - - - ----------- procedure- declaration procedure-header ; subroutine- block ;

-- - - --------------- procedure- header procedure dotted- identifier - -| ---- ------------- <template- list>------------ formal- parameter- list-modifiers -|hint- directives

--subroutine- block -|-----block-------------------------------------- |-external- directive-| |---asm-block----| forward
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See section 14.4, page 783 for the list of parameters. Note that procedures can be generic, see section 8.5, page 491 for more details.

A procedure declaration that is followed by a block implements the action of the procedure in that block. The following is a valid procedure:

Procedure DoSomething (Para : String);  
begin  
  Writeln (Got parameter : ,Para);  
  Writeln (Parameter in upper case : ,Upper(Para));  
end;

As with most identifiers, a procedure can have hint directives (section 1.5, page 53):

procedure something; deprecated;

Note that it is possible that a procedure calls itself.

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