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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red
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Learn Red ? Fundamentals of Red

by Ivo Balbaert
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
252 pages
6h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Functions and Objects

This chapter is about modularizing code through the use of functions and objects.

We have already encountered a lot of built-in functions, such as print and cd, but of course you can write user-defined functions as well. When a program's code gets longer and more complex, you want to be able to give a name to certain code segments. For example, when processing a data stream from a file or the network, you'll want to have a process-request or process-record function that contains the logic of dealing with one chunk of data. That way, you can call this function each time you need it. This leads to less code that is better structured and more readable. Less code means fewer bugs! Functions can take parameters, local ...

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