Because if I don't specify a name for this input, I have no way of actually referring to it in subsequent lines of code.
因为如果我不给这个输入定义一个名字,在随后的代码中,我就没有办法使用它。
But in general, the choice of variable name is a great way of commenting your code.
但是通常来说,变量名称的选择,是评论你的代码的,一个重要方式。
Computing square root. I'm going to capture it in a piece of code, I'm going to be able to refer to it by a name, and I'm going to suppress the details, meaning inside of that computation, you don't need to know what it does. You just need to know, if I give it the right kind of input, it'll give me back an input that satisfies the contract that I set up.
比如计算平方根,我会用一段代码来说明,我将给它命名,并且忽略细节,意思就是在这一段计算过程中,你不用知道它做了什么,你只需知道,如果我进行了正确的输入,它将会给我符合条件的输出。
to do sqrt, or square root-- no, I'm going to square root use sqrt, that's the name I'm using here-- square root a hundred different places in some piece of code. Without function, I'd have to copy that piece of code everywhere.
让我做一下准备,想象一下我要调用sqrt或者-,不,我会调用sqrt函数,这是我在这里用的名字,我得把这段代码到处复制。
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