Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

[Urs Liska]

Am 18.04.2015 um 15:08 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 13:11 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> > Am 18. April 2015 12:15:08 MESZ, schrieb Richard Shann
> > <address@hidden>:
> > > 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
> >
> > So what does it mean when we have
> > define-scheme-function
>
> That is the name of scheme procedure (or macro actually) that the
> LilyPond developers chose; I think the Guile manual is consistent in
> calling them procedures.

So the choice of these names is actually an inconsistency in LilyPond's 
terminology?

I'm asking this because I have just completed a tutorial about 
define-music-function and its siblings, and I realized that I used the 
terms function and procedure in an arbitrary mix.

Now I think that I should follow the consistency of the Guile manual , 
use "procedure" everywhere in my text and point out the inconsistency in 
naming.

Urs

> Richard


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