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### User defined functions

To define functions by an user himself, ``def'` statement must be used. Syntactical errors are detected in the parsing phase of Asir, and notified with an indication of where Asir found the error. If a function with the same name is already defined (regardless to its arity,) the new definition will override the old one, and the user will be told by a message,

    afo() redefined.

on the screen when a flag `verbose` is set to a non-zero value by `ctrl()`. Recursive definition, and of course, recursive use of functions are available. A call for an yet undefined function in a function definition is not detected as an error. An error will be detected at execution of the call of that yet undefined function.

    def f(X) {
        if ( !X )
            return 1;
        else
            return X * f(X-1);
    }

    def c(N)
    {
        A = newvect(N+1); A[0] = B = newvect(1); B[0] = 1;
        for ( K = 1; K <= N; K++ ) {
            A[K] = B = newvect(K+1); B[0] = B[K] = 1;
            for ( P = A[K-1], J = 1; J < K; J++ )
                B[J] = P[J-1]+P[J];
            }
        return A;
    }

In the second example, `c(N)` returns a vector, say `A`, of length `N+1`. `A[I]` is a vector of length `I+1`, and each element is again a vector which contains as its elements.

In the following, the manner of writing Asir programs is exhibited for those who have no experience in writing C programs.

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