On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just stumbled over a terminology issue: are "procedure" and "function"
> synonyms in Scheme or do they refer to different things?
>
> From my earliest experiences with programming I'd recall the difference to
> be that functions return a value and procedures don't. But that's clearly
> not the case in Scheme.
>
> Any enlightenment available?
>

Well, I'm guilty of using them interchangeably...

Anyway, maybe the following will help -- or add to the confusion :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/721090/what-is-the-difference-between-a-function-and-a-procedure

DN
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