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@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ value to give back if the argument is the empty list.  Ultimately, we might
 want to make use of our `'a option` technique, but for this assignment, just
 pick a strategy, no matter how clunky. 
 
-Be sure to test your proposals with simple lists. (You'll have to make_list
+Be sure to test your proposals with simple lists. (You'll have to `make_list`
 the lists yourself; don't expect OCaml to magically translate between its
 native lists and the ones you buil.d)
 
@@ -233,20 +233,20 @@ any auxiliary functions you need.
 Baby monads
 -----------
 
-Read the lecture notes for week 6, then write a
-function `lift'` that generalized the correspondence between + and
-`add'`: that is, `lift'` takes any two-place operation on integers
-and returns a version that takes arguments of type `int option`
-instead, returning a result of `int option`.  In other words,
-`lift'` will have type
+Read the material on dividing by zero/towards monads from <strike>the end of lecture
+notes for week 6</strike> the start of lecture notes for week 7, then write a function `lift'` that generalized the
+correspondence between + and `add'`: that is, `lift'` takes any two-place
+operation on integers and returns a version that takes arguments of type `int
+option` instead, returning a result of `int option`.  In other words, `lift'`
+will have type:
 
 	(int -> int -> int) -> (int option) -> (int option) -> (int option)
 
-so that `lift' (+) (Some 3) (Some 4)` will evalute to `Some 7`.  
+so that `lift' (+) (Some 3) (Some 4)` will evalute to `Some 7`.
 Don't worry about why you need to put `+` inside of parentheses.
 You should make use of `bind'` in your definition of `lift'`:
 
-	let bind' (x: int option) (f: int -> (int option)) =
-		match x with None -> None | Some n -> f n;;
+	let bind' (u: int option) (f: int -> (int option)) =
+		match u with None -> None | Some x -> f x;;