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Programming by Intention, Depth-First or Breadth-First?

Say I have the following graph of dependencies between procedures/functions/methods: o / \ v e / \ / \ r f l w That is, function o first calls function v, and then ...
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Is it a good idea to provide different function signatures that do the same thing?

Here is a C++ class that gets constructed with three values. class Foo{ //Constructor Foo(std::string, int, char); private: std::string foo; char bar; int baz; }; All of ...
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Functions with side-effects in Delphi/Pascal

What is the proper approach to functions that have side-effects in Delphi/Pascal? For example, I could have a boolean function DeleteFile that returns True if the file was deleted and False ...