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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ We'll tend to write (λa M)
as just `(\a M)`, so we don't hav
Application: (M N)
-Some authors reserve the term "term" for just variables and abstracts. We won't participate in that convention; we'll probably just say "term" and "expression" indiscriminately for expressions of any of these three forms.
+Some authors reserve the term "term" for just variables and abstracts. We'll probably just say "term" and "expression" indiscriminately for expressions of any of these three forms.
Examples of expressions:
@@ -603,7 +603,6 @@ Here's how it looks to say the same thing in various of these languages.
It's easy to be lulled into thinking this is a kind of imperative construction. *But it's not!* It's really just a shorthand for the compound "let"-expressions we've already been looking at, taking the maximum syntactically permissible scope. (Compare the "dot" convention in the lambda calculus, discussed above.)
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9. Some shorthand
OCaml permits you to abbreviate:
@@ -674,12 +673,15 @@ Here's how it looks to say the same thing in various of these languages.
and there's no more mutation going on there than there is in:
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Some more comparisons between Scheme and OCaml
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