In Tcl, a procedure is a Tcl command that has been created by the
proc command.
RS: A procedure is a
script with an argument list (in other words, a
lambda) bound to a
command name, by which it can be called. The arguments make the initial set of local variables, to which you might add others. All of these will be removed on leaving the procedure. See
global or
variable or
upvar on how to "import" variables from upper scopes. In
Tcl, procedures are defined with the
proc command, for example:
proc myproc {arg1 arg2} {
# do something here, e.g.
puts arg1:$arg1,arg2:$arg2
}
Each procedure returns a result - if not explicitly by
return, then it's the result of the last command. So in Tcl, every procedure is also a function.