Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 11:51 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just stumbled over a terminology issue: are "procedure" and "function" 
> synonyms in Scheme or do they refer to different things?
The Guile reference manual uses the term procedure
> 
>  From my earliest experiences with programming I'd recall the difference 
> to be that functions return a value and procedures don't.

that was a common terminological distinction for some programming
languages at one time apparently.

Richard