Abandoned

Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.

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.