You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, ...

The C and C++ standards do not specify the order of evaluation for function arguments. This can lead to subtle portability problems. As I explained in my column last month (“As Precise As Possible”), ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...

Some functions require that their arguments be restricted within a certain range. For example, the argument of the LOG function must be greater than 0. Most functions do not permit missing values as ...