[asterisk-users] Difference between Application Set and Function SET?

[Richard Kenner]

> It was only when I ran AsteriskLint over my dialplan that I noticed this:
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+14+Application_Set
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+14+Function_SET
> 
> Hmmm, they both seem to do the same thing. Or don't they?

In some sense they do, but one's an application, meaning that it's
like a subprogram in a programming-language sense, and the other is a
function, which returns a value.