approach to writing functions

[Ben Finney]

On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 22:53:40 -0800, Paul Prescod wrote:
> Imagine a university textbook without chapters. It is somewhat harder 
> to navigate the one long stream. By convention, programmers use 
> functions as "chapters."

Naah.  The modules are the "chapters".  Classes are "sections", and
functions are "subsections".

And every sentence should fit on one 80-column line, or be broken into
multiple sentences that do.

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