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 # Result
 
-The `result` variable is a special variable that serves as an implicit return variable. This is useful because in most cases, the control flow semantics of the `return` statement are unneeded. `result` is initialized with the default value for a given return type, so the following code starts as `0`, before being initialized to `number`:
+The `result` variable is a special variable that serves as an implicit return variable, which exists because the control flow semantics of the `return` statement are rarely needed. The result variable is initialized in the standard way, as if it was declared with `var result: T`.
 
 ``` nimrod
 proc `**`(number, power: int): int =