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@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@ There are some more hints about Scheme [here](/assignment8/) and [here](/week1/)
 We will however try to give some general advice about how to translate between OCaml and Haskell.
 
 *	Again, it may sometimes be useful to [try Haskell in your web browser](http://tryhaskell.org/)
-*	There are many Haskell tutorials and textbooks available. This is probably the most actively developed: [Haskell Wikibook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell)
-*	[Yet Another Haskell Tutorial](http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf) (much of this excellent book has supposedly been integrated into the Haskell Wikibook)
-*	All About Monads has supposedly also been integrated into the Haskell Wikibook
+*	There are many Haskell tutorials and textbooks available. This is probably the most actively developed: [Haskell wikibook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell)
+*	[Yet Another Haskell Tutorial](http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/docs/daume02yaht.pdf) (much of this excellent book has supposedly been integrated into the Haskell wikibook)
+*	All About Monads has supposedly also been integrated into the Haskell wikibook
 *	(A not-so-)[Gentle Introduction to Haskell](http://web.archive.org/web/http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/) (archived)
 *	[Learn You a Haskell for Great Good](http://learnyouahaskell.com/)
 
@@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ We will however try to give some general advice about how to translate between O
 		type person = name * address;;
 		type 'a personal_data = PD of 'a;;
 
+*	When a type only has a single variant, as with PersonalData, Haskell programmers will often use the same name for both the type and the value constructor, like this:
+
+		data PersonalData a = PersonalData a
+
+	The interpreter can always tell from the context when you're using the type name and when you're using the value constructor.
+
 *	The type constructors discussed above took simple types as arguments. In Haskell, types are also allowed to take *type constructors* as arguments:
 
 		data BarType t = Bint (t Integer) | Bstring (t string)
@@ -664,6 +670,11 @@ Haskell has more built-in support for monads, but one can define the monads one
 
 	which can be translated straightforwardly into OCaml.
 
+	For more details, see:
+
+	*	[Haskell wikibook on do-notation](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/do_Notation)
+	*	[Do-notation considered harmful](http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Do_notation_considered_harmful)
+
 *	If you like the Haskell do-notation, there's [a library](http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/pa_monad/) you can compile and install to let you use something similar in OCaml.
 
 *	In order to do any printing, Haskell has to use a special `IO` monad. So programs will look like this: