[plt-scheme] Understanding lambda

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, aditya shukla
<adityashukla1983 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the help guys , so now i know that  in (define f (lambda(x) (+(*
> 3 x) 5)))  value of f is a function returned by the lambda expressions.so
> when i do ( f 1)  or anything as in (f 55) then what are 1 or 55  in this
> expression , constants or functions?

I think whether or not 1 and 55 are constants is kind of beside the
point... one could consider (lambda (x) (+ (* 3 x) 5)) a constant,
too.  (I won't go into why, I think at this point it would just be
confusing.)  The important thing is that they are all expressions,
they all produce values, but 1 and 55 produce numbers and the lambda
expression produces a function.  The important distinction between
them is the kind of data they produce.

-- 
Carl Eastlund