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		sarchertech on June 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checke... We called those 2 terms "formal parameters", and "actual parameters" if I remember my programming language concepts class from college correctly.

sdegutis on June 20, 2019 [–]

I've never been to programming college but in 10 years I have always heard them as def(parameters) and call(arguments). Probably a lot of that was when reading about how VMs and compilers work, though.

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