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functions so that the Arduino system itself can call them.

This is a difficult
concept to grasp, but one way to think of it is as being similar to a definition in a
legal document.
Most legal documents have a “definitions” section that might say, for
example, something like the following:
Definitions.

The Author: The person or persons responsible for creating the book

By defining a term in this way—for example, simply using the word


“author” as shorthand for “The person or persons responsible for creating the
book”—lawyers can make their documents shorter and more readable. Functions
work much like such definitions. You define a function that you or the system
itself can then use elsewhere in your sketches.
Going back to void , these two functions (setup and loop ) do not return a
value as some functions do, so you have to say that they are void, using the void
keyword. If you imagine a function called sin that performed the trigonometric
function of that name, then this function would return a value. The value
returned to use from the call would be the sine of the angle passed as its
argument.
Rather like a legal definition uses words to define a term, we write functions
in C that can then be called from C.
After the special keyword void comes the name of the function and then
parentheses to contain any arguments. In this case, there are no arguments, but
we still have to include the parentheses there. There is no semicolon after the
closing parenthesis because we are defining a function rather than calling it, so
we need to say what will happen when something does call the function.
Those things that are to happen when the function is called must be placed
between curly braces. Curly braces and the code in between them are known as a
block of code, and this is a concept that you will meet again later.
Note that although you do have to define both the functions setup and loop ,
you do not actually have to put any lines of code in them. However, failing to
add code will make your sketch a little dull.

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