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Code reuse

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- Eating nothing but omelets would get old real quick. Variety is the spice of life so I should probably add another function to my menu of breakfast recipes. - How about making some pancakes? - Sounds good to me. To make a pancake, I start by mixing together the ingredients in a bowl. Then I pour that mixture into a frying pan, I cook the pancake on one side, flip it, I cook the other side, and the output of that process, is a delicious pancake. Hmm, something seems familiar about this. Ah, the process for making a pancake has a lot in common with the process for making an omelet. Performing the same steps in multiple places is the perfect time to consider functionalizing that process. Back in idle I had the start a 102 breakfast function scripts open which has a new function for making pancakes. Inside of the make pancake function, I perform all of the steps in the pancake making process. I mix the ingredients, pour the mixture into a frying pan, cook the first side, flip it, and…

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