Lambda vs. function

[Waldemar Horwat]

Dave Herman wrote:
> Do you see where I'm going with this? It's a pretty natural idea. The 
> branches of an if-statement can be in tail position because they are the 
> last thing produced by the if-statement. Some things like loop forms and 
> switch won't be able to contain tail positions because they're too 
> imperative. But if statements and blocks have a very natural notion of 
> tail position.
> 
> Dave

Yes, that's what I was referring to earlier.  Do you now understand my mail from 10/17/2008 12:39?  There are contexts where things are black and white and there are more gray ones -- switch statements, try/catch, return, type annotated functions, etc.

    Waldemar