>>>A function or procedure is a bit of code that can be called over and over again, to do some specific task. (FUNCTION and PROCEDURE is the same in VFP.)
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>>I think I saw an interesting page describing difference between FUNCTIONS and PROCEDURES at Sergey Berezniker's web-site, but it was later removed for some reason.
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>AFAIK, the only difference is how it is called, i.e.:
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>do MyFunc with SomeValue
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>MyFunc(SomeValue)
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>... but not in the definition as a FUNCTION or PROCEDURE.
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>The difference in the sample code is that by default, in the first case variables are passed by reference, in the second case, by value.
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>But, I think it doesn't matter whether the function is declared as a FUNCTION or as a PROCEDURE.

Yes, in VFP it doesn't really matter, though in general function should return a value and the procedure usually should not.