12. Glossary
- composition (of functions)
- Calling one function from within the body of another, or using the return value of one function as an argument to the call of another.
- fruitful function
- A function that yields a return value instead of
None.
- incremental development
- A program development plan intended to simplify debugging by adding and testing only a small amount of code at a time.
- None
- A special Python value. One use is that it is returned by functions that do not execute a return statement with a return argument.
- return value
- The value provided as the result of a function call.
- temporary variable
- A variable used to store an intermediate value in a complex calculation.