From: Jim Pryor Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:09:53 +0000 (-0400) Subject: week2 tweaks X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=fdc741933683621ccad260cf9b8c985d234f48f3;hp=08a3dd2c1b83fb8e5b31be0895a9d257cc915446 week2 tweaks Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- diff --git a/week2.mdwn b/week2.mdwn index ebc59593..95b1bb98 100644 --- a/week2.mdwn +++ b/week2.mdwn @@ -35,9 +35,10 @@ Another way to think of it is to identify expressions not with particular alphab A third way to think is to identify the lambda formula not with classes of alphabetic sequences, but rather with abstract structures that we might draw like this: -
λ ... `___` ...
+
λ
+	... ___ ...
 ^      |
-|`______`|
+|______|
 
Here there are no bound variables, but there are *bound positions*. We can regard formula like (a) and (b) as just helpfully readable ways to designate these abstract structures.