"mdzsyn-symbol">height</span>]
 (<span class="mdzsyn-coresym">print</span> <span class="mdzsyn-string">"calculating area of a triangle..."</span>)
 (<span class="mdzsyn-coresym">*</span> <span class="mdzsyn-symbol">base</span> <span class="mdzsyn-symbol">height</span> <span class="mdzsyn-number">0.5</span>))</code></pre><p>A function defined with <code class="mendoza-code">defn</code> consists of a name, a number of optional flags for def, and
finally a function body. The example above is named triangle-are