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Procedures may be given parameters. They are the essential feature that make procedures so useful. Consider again the previous example of procedure Add. Very likely a program contains several arrays to which the procedure should be applicable. Redefining it for each such array would be cumbersome, inelegant, and can be avoided by introducing its operand as a parameter as follows.
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Wirth, N. (1988). Parameters. In: Programming in Modula-2. Text and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83565-0_12
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