"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:21 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Instead of "The difference" or "One difference" I would suggest: >>> "However, a procedure does not return a value, so there is no return type >>> declaration; though a procedure can declare INOUT (but not plain OUT) >>> parameters." >> Not sure if that's an improvement. > The "however" part is probably a wash; I just dislike seeing a count > started and not having an ending and thus being left in a state of "what > didn't they include that's important". The rest of the paragraph is what's important enough to include here. I very strongly dislike the existing "The difference ..." wording, because it implies that that's the only difference, which is immediately belied by the rest. "However" isn't a lot better. Would it be better to turn the para into a bulleted list, which we could introduce with "The key differences are:" ? regards, tom lane
