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by learc83 2554 days ago
We called those 2 terms "formal parameters", and "actual parameters" if I remember my programming language concepts class from college correctly.
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I've never been to programming college but in 10 years I have always heard them as def(parameters) and call(arguments). Probably a lot of that was when reading about how VMs and compilers work, though.