You see that you can use parentheses in the standard way. By the way, `<=` means ≤ or "less than or equals to", and `>=` means ≥. Just in case you haven't seen them written this way before.
+<a id=variables></a>
I've started throwing in some **variables**. We'll say variables are any expression that's written with an initial lower-case letter, then is followed by a sequence of zero or more upper- or lower-case letters, or numerals, or underscores (`_`). Then at the end you can optionally have a `?` or `!` or a sequence of `'`s, understood as "primes." Hence, all of these are legal variables:
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* All of the literal atoms and literal containers
* Variables
* Complex expressions that apply `&` or some variable understood to be bound to a function to some arguments
-* Various other complex expressions involving λ or `let` or `letrec` or `case`
+* Various other complex expressions involving the keywords λ or `let` or `letrec` or `case`
The special syntaxes `[10, 20, 30]` are just shorthand for the more offical syntax using `&` and `[]`, and likewise for `{10, 20, 30}`. The `if ... then ... else ...` syntax is just shorthand for a `case`-construction using the literal patterns `'true` and `'false`.