From: barker Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:38:58 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=a995e882b81ec3f1940906fdb6b2118f4b8c6c66;hp=08e5cbb580b637a3e4c92fbb4fbb9f7891b81103 --- diff --git a/lambda_evaluator.mdwn b/lambda_evaluator.mdwn index 4cf07361..df28a423 100644 --- a/lambda_evaluator.mdwn +++ b/lambda_evaluator.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ It will allow you to write lambda terms and evaluate them, with full ability to (This won't work in Racket, because Racket doesn't even try to represent the internal structure of a function in a human-readable way.) *Lambda terms*: lambda terms are written with a backslash, thus: `((\x (\y x)) z)`. -If you click "Reduce", the system will produce a lambda term that is guaranteed to be reduction equivalent (`<~~>`) with the original term. +If you click "Reduce", the system will produce a lambda term that is guaranteed to be reduction equivalent (`<~~>`) with the original term. So `((\x (\y x)) z)` reduces to `(\y z)`. *Let*: in order to make building a more elaborate system easier, it is possible to define values using `let`. In this toy system, `let`s should only be used at the beginning of a file. If we have, for intance,