Hi Freeman, You can find a rather gentle introduction at https://scheme-book.ursliska.de/scheme/procedures/ and following sections.
Maybe you'll find the whole site a baluable reading as well. HTH Urs Am 25. Dezember 2019 06:47:48 MEZ schrieb Andrew Bernard <[email protected]>: >Hi Freeman, > >Scheme is based in the lambda calculus. At some point, you need to >learn Scheme to do everything you want in lilypond, in terms of >extensions and so on. There's no avoiding it (well maybe, but...). >Scheme is a wonderful elegant and powerful language, and efforts to >learn it are repaid handsomely. But you don't need to become an expert >in logic and lambda calculus. Lambda is the Greek letter, used heavily >in formal logic. [Your question would tend to indicate you have not >studied Scheme, unless I am mistaken - it would be hard to avoid >lambda functions!] > >Many valuable resources here: > >https://schemers.org/ > > > >Andrew > >On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 13:01, Freeman Gilmore ><[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I see this term 'lambda" used in lambda function, etc., to what does >it refer? -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
