Procedures

Spice distinguishes strictly between functions and procedures. Procedures are concise and enclosed blocks of code, which a programmer can define within his source code. Each procedure holds a set of instructions to execute in the stated order. Other than functions, procedures do not have a return value. The paradigm here is, that a function calculates and returns something whereas a procedure executes some action.

Usage¶

Procedures in Spice can be defined like this:

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p procedureName() {
    ... // Do something
}

Spice also allows you to pass arguments to a procedure. This arguments may also have default values, which can then be omitted when calling the procedure.

Example with default parameter value¶

Here, the second argument is one with a default value attached.

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p demoProcedure(int arg1, bool arg2 = false) {
    ... // Do something with the arguments
}

This procedure could get called like so:

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demoProcedure(10);
demoProcedure(7, true);