Robert Fisher
Just thinking out loud
Parameters & arguments
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- formal: the name in the definition
- actual: the value
- parameters: what the callee calls them
- arguments: what the caller calls them
Thus...
(define (increment x)
(+ x 1))
(define (foo)
(display (increment 5)))
The formal parameter of increment is x. The actual argument of increment in foo is 5.
Although, in actual usage, parameter & argument tend to be used interchangeably.
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