You can't write a program with exactly
this syntax. You could write an -egen-
function.
If you want a new variable as output,
why this question?
I could start speculating on what you might mean,
but better that you should tell us much more.
Indeed, please show us your program.
Nick
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Patrick McElduff
> I want to write a program that has two arguements and
> returns a value so that I can use it in the form:
>
> generate temp = program(var1 var2)
>
> I have written the guts of the program to do the work but I
> don't know how to get the input and output in the form I want.
>
> Could you please tell me where I should start looking.
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