frenchy64 wrote: > I'm very confused...I want to describe passing variables to functions > and I've seen these two words used in very similar contexts. > > Is there a difference between them? > In general, "parsing" is analyzing the grammatical structure of a string. People sometimes talk loosely about "parsing the command line". but I don't think that's normally applied to providing the actual arguments (corresponding to the definition's "formal parameters") when a function is called - that's argument passing.
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