Part three of a small series explaining Fuzion using idioms from https://www.programming-idioms.org/.
Fuzion idiom #3, Create a procedure:
A procedure in Fuzion is a feature with effects.
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The code of `finish` performs a call to `say`, which prints a given string and returns a value of type `unit`, which in Fuzion has a similar role like `void` in Java or C, but it is a proper first-class type. So the inferred result type of `finish` is `unit` as well.
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More on the Fuzion language, more examples, idioms, a tutorial, design background can be found at https://flang.dev
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Fuzion uses effects, which means that `say` does not just print the string, but it uses the `io.out` effect from the current environment. The default `io.out` prints that string to `stdout`, but we could replace it by an effect that does something else.
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