A.2. Built-in Functions and Procedures

All built-in functions and procedures may be called with either scalar or vector arguments. The return value of such a function is scalar if its argument is scalar, and vector if its argument is vector. Type INTEGER always includes type CARDINAL.

In Modula-2, mathematical functions and I/O-procedures are separate modules and their objects have to be imported. In Parallaxis, however, all these functions and procedures can be used with either scalar or vector arguments. Therefore, they had to be included as built-in functions and procedures.

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