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What is difference between a formal and an actual parameter?

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516. What is difference between a formal and an actual parameter?

The variables declared in the procedure and which are passed, as arguments are called actual, the parameters in the procedure declaration. Actual parameters contain the values that are passed to a procedure and receive results. Formal parameters are the placeholders for the values of actual parameters

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