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Thanks to all who responded to my function, routine, subroutine
question. I decided to go with function because they all
returned a value. I also decided to forgo the parens because
I can use function as a modifier in the text and use the parens
in the syntax statements and examples. I asked some programmers
what the difference between the terms is and, as David Hamilton
predicted, they said they're all the same thing. I guess it
takes a bunch of tech writers to quibble about definitions.
