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Discussion on: Does it bother you when programmers use the word "Arguments" and "Parameters" interchangeably ?

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FJones

Not at all. Because it ultimately doesn't matter, unless we're talking about specifics of which side we're talking about.

Does it matter if you're working with arguments in the function, or passing parameters to the function? No. It matters when the distinction matters. It matters when discussing, f.e. pass-by-value in languages where non-scalars are implicitly passing references (and even then, does it really matter?).

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Bek Brace

totally true!