Re: "procedure" vs. "function"

[Richard Shann]

On Sat, 2015-04-18 at 17:21 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> 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?

It would depend on what define-scheme-function does, after all scheme
has lambda to create procedures. The word "function" would seem to be up
for grabs for use in naming things to give an idea of what they do (in
the context of guile) ...

Richard