Similar to other functional programming languages, the result of a function is the value of the last expression evaluated — there is no explicit “ return ” statement.

It was given explicit statement by Robert Leslie Ellis in " On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities " read on 14 February 1842, ( and much later again in " Remarks on the Fundamental Principles of the Theory of Probabilities ").

Hence, Mark's explicit claim that the Last Supper was a Passover meal is contraindicated by his statement that Joseph of Arimathea bought a shroud for Jesus on Good Friday ; which would not have been possible if it were a festival day.

Todd Gitlin in The Whole World Is Watching in describing the movement's influences stated, " The New Left, again, refused the self-discipline of explicit programmatic statement until too late-until, that is, the Marxist-Leninist sects filled the vacuum with dogmas, with clarity on the cheap.

For example, the Mertens conjecture is a statement about natural numbers that is now known to be false, but no explicit counterexample ( i. e., a natural number n for which the Mertens function M ( n ) equals or exceeds the square root of n ) is known: all numbers less than 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > have the Mertens property, and the smallest number which does not have this property is only known to be less than the exponential of 1. 59 × 10 < sup > 40 </ sup >, which is approximately 10 to the power 4. 3 × 10 < sup > 39 </ sup >.

Self-modifying code can also be used to affect control flow through its side effects, but does not usually involve an explicit control flow statement ( an exception being the ALTER verb in COBOL ).

* 1850 – The first explicit statement of the first and second law of thermodynamics, given by Rudolf Clausius.

In daily life, measurement uncertainty is often implicit (" He is 6 feet tall " give or take a few inches ), while for any serious use an explicit statement of the measurement uncertainty is necessary.

Rose also claims that “ in Haggai ’ s passage, one does not find a statement about Zerubbabel being YHVH ’ s anointed, or about his autonomous rule ( given by God ), present or future, and there is no explicit promise that God will make the nations submit to his chosen one.

Although the 1962 novel pre-dated extensive US activity in Vietnam and was not based on any historic incidents, by the December 1966 release of the film it was seen as an explicit statement on the US's extensive combat involvement in the Vietnam War in reviews published by the New York Times.

An explicit statement of this, along with the further principle that nothing can pass away into nothing, is found in Empedocles ( ca.

This version lacks the nearly explicit statement that the Elves would have won had it not been for the treachery of Men.

Unlike the 1977 Soviet Constitution, the text of the Constitution itself doesn't explicitly mention the Communist Party of China and there is an explicit statement in Article 5 that states that the Constitution and law are supreme over all organizations and individuals.

The first explicit statement of the first law of thermodynamics, by Rudolf Clausius in 1850, referred to cyclic thermodynamic processes.

Sometimes the concept of internal energy is not made explicit in the statement.

Sometimes the existence of the internal energy is made explicit but work is not explicitly mentioned in the statement of the first postulate of thermodynamics.

Charles Ammi Cutter made the first explicit statement regarding the objectives of a bibliographic system in his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalog in 1876.

Some political scientists prefer more explicit statement of the voter's actual tolerances and preferences, and believe that failure to reflect these in ballot design and voting system alternatives causes many problems and leads for calls for electoral reform.

The Fourteen Points speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I.

In the light of this explicit mention of a jubilee with great remissions of the penalties of sin to be obtained by full confession and purpose of amendment, it seems difficult to reject the statement of Cardinal Giacomo Stefaneschi, the contemporary and counsellor of Pope Boniface VIII, and author of a treatise on the first Jubilee, that the proclamation of the Jubilee owed its origin to the statements of certain aged pilgrims who persuaded Boniface that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome about a hundred years before.

We may guess that Fowler had made his suggestion because the notion of temperature is in effect a presupposition of thermodynamics that earlier physicists had not felt needed explicit statement as a law of thermodynamics, and because the mood of his time, pursuing a " mechanical " axiomatic approach, wanted such an explicit statement.

According to Christian theologian Alister McGrath, the Jewish Christians affirmed every aspect of then contemporary Second Temple Judaism with the addition of the belief that Jesus was the messiah, with Isaiah 49: 6, " an explicit parallel to 42: 6 " quoted by Paul in Acts 13: 47 and reinterpreted by Justin the Martyr.

Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament ( Hebrew scripture ) as predicting the coming of the Messiah ( see Christianity and Biblical prophecy for examples ), and believes that they are fulfilled in Jesus ' own explicit life and teaching:

" She became convinced that illness could be healed through an awakened thought brought about by a clearer perception of God and the explicit rejection of drugs, hygiene and medicine based upon the observation that Jesus did not use these methods for healing: It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use ; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing.

The teaching of Chalcedon was not so much repudiated as passed over in silence ; Jesus Christ was described as the " only-begotten Son of God … one and not two " and there was no explicit reference to the two natures.

There is no explicit reference to a historical person Jesus or to the concept of the atoning sacrificial death of the Son of God.

While the lyrics on the album represent a strong Christian worldview, explicit references to God or Jesus were almost non-existent.

Luke has all of this in 19: 28-20: 8 except for the fig tree but an explicit prediction by Jesus of Jerusalem's destruction.

Mark clearly wrote to show Jesus is the Jewish messiah prophesied to be David's heir and successor, so why this speech and no explicit statement by Jesus of Davidic descent?

The first explicit mention of an annunciation foreshadowing the birth of Jesus is in XIX: 20, where Mary asks Gabriel how she will be able to conceive, when no man has touched her.

This verse has a clearly distinct entity, taken to be God the Father, who makes explicit reference to Jesus as his son.

France notes that it also implies that the devil then had control of the entire globe prior to the coming of Jesus, something made explicit in Luke 4: 6 and John 12: 31.

France, however, notes that this view is not explicit in the Gospel and that the alternate view that Jesus knew, and was even close friends, with both men beforehand is perfectly possible.

This Europeanization of the law was made explicit by a number of 19th century scholars.

Hall, for example, was quite explicit on this point when he said states outside European civilization must formally enter into the circle of law-governed countries.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

In some places, Camus makes the allegory explicit, as when he refers to the plague in terms that describe an enemy in war: " the epidemic was in retreat all along the line ; victory was won and the enemy was abandoning his positions.

Rather than receiving an explicit order, a commander would be told of his superior's intent and the role which his unit was to fill in this concept.

The process was accompanied by numerous objections, notably from the deeply conservatively evangelical Diocese of Sydney which noted the loss of BCP wording and of an explicit ' biblical doctrine of substitutionary atonement '.

The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing to an end the bitter inter tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws ( Aus ) and Khazraj within Medina.

Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.

Some designs had no explicit spring as such ; it was simply a compliant mechanism.

For example, for a long period it was assumed that Imperial China had no system of civil law because the law codes did not have explicit provisions for civil lawsuits.

The map was based on the 1901 Census of India in which questions about caste and sub-caste were asked of the respondents, the most explicit in the census's history.

Reuvein Margolies suggests that as the Mishnah was redacted after the Bar Kochba revolt, its editors were reluctant to include explicit discussion of a holiday celebrating another relatively recent revolt against a foreign ruler, for fear of antagonizing the Romans.

In the mid-1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the United States over the artwork of their album Frankenchrist ( 1985 ), which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger's Penis Landscape.

Very often, no actual mystery even existed: the books simply revolved around justice being served to those who deserved harsh treatment, which was described in explicit detail.

This style of presentation was not new — many of its elements were first seen in the reigns of Aurelian and Severus — but it was only under the Tetrarchs that it was refined into an explicit system.

Belloc was quite explicit in his opposition to Protestantism as a concept and schism from the Catholic Church in general, considering the division of Christendom in the 16th century, as one of the most harmful events in the history of Europe.

The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office delivered a note to the Ecuadorian government in Quito reminding them of the provisions of the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 which allow the British government to withdraw recognition of diplomatic protection from embassies ; the move was interpreted as a hostile act by Ecuador, with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño stating that this " explicit threat " would be met with " appropriate responses in accordance with international law ".