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
etc.?
>>
>> 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.
>
I'm sure it was at least in my first BADIC, but I'm not sure about Delphi (= Pascal).