Actually, I get "FirstSecond2311".

The extra 1s are the return values from the functions first and second. As they don't have explicit return statements, they both return the result of the last expression evaluated. In both cases, that's a call to print. And print returns 1 (i.e. true) if it prints successfully.

For extra credit, explain why it doesn't print "23First1Second1" - which would seem to be the most obvious result.

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In reply to Re: Martin Brown book page 33 by davorg
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