I concur w/ Joe that there's something to be said for using "returns" since you're presumably writing documentation that you want non-Racketeer to read and immediately understand -- your goal here (presumably) isn't to be pedantic. This is in contrast to a programming or programming languages course, where this bit of pedantry is sort of the point.
Shriram On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2012 8:19 AM, "Richard Cleis" <rcl...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I am writing documentation. What are acceptable words for the following >> brackets? >> >> The function f [what verbs are ok?] > > Takes, accepts, > >> a name, then [what about here?] a phone number. > > Computes, evaluates to, reduces to, > (Or even "returns", if you don't mind if Ellen and I cringe. We'll know what > you mean.) > >> >> rac >> >> >> >> On Sep 8, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Joe Marshall wrote: >> >>> A Scheme procedure might return a value, or it might delegate to another >>> procedure (via tail recursion). This is a key point: languages without tail >>> recursion cannot delegate to another procedure. They can do a limited >>> simulation of delegation by chaining the returns, but this adds an O(n) >>> space overhead to the computation and consumes stack space, which is a >>> finite resource (hence the limit). >>> >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >> > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
