From 22724972289e3ad77f7b5e6142a6a4424cbdbc38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Pryor Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:00:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comment on differences btw Hankin / Hindley&Selden Signed-off-by: Jim Pryor --- index.mdwn | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 34aa2442..3175dcb8 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -144,7 +144,11 @@ Hankin, currently $17 on * (Another good book covering the same ground as the Hankin book, but more thoroughly, and in a more mathematical style, is *Lambda-Calculus and Combinators: -an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin.) +an Introduction*, by J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin. If you choose to read +both the Hankin book and this book, you'll notice the authors made some different +terminological/notational choices. At first, this makes comprehension slightly slower, +but in the long run it's helpful because it makes the arbitrariness of those choices more salient.) + * *The Little Schemer, Fourth Edition*, by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen, currently $23 on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262560992). -- 2.11.0