14.1 Procedure declaration

A procedure declaration defines an identifier and associates it with a block of code. The procedure can then be called with a procedure statement.

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See section 14.4, page 785 for the list of parameters. Note that procedures can be generic, see section 8.5, page 494 for more details.

A procedure declaration that is followed by a block implements the action of the procedure in that block. The following is a valid procedure:

Procedure DoSomething (Para : String);
begin
  Writeln ('Got parameter : ',Para);
  Writeln ('Parameter in upper case : ',Upper(Para));
end;

As with most identifiers, a procedure can have hint directives (section 1.5, page 53):

procedure something; deprecated;

Note that it is possible that a procedure calls itself.