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Re: manual terminology: `procedure', `function' etc.

Tim> For that matter, what is the point of distinguishing between
Tim> procedures and macros?  People seem more comfortable with that
Tim> distinction, but it's not clear to me whether there's any
Tim> practical value behind it.

Macros can evaluate their arguments in a different order.  This is
visible to the programmer, so it is worth documenting.

Tom