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From: Michael Norris
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:41

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A quick question.

Where can I find good definitions of the words relating to
functional programming? I could make up definitions, but I'd
rather use accepted ones and refer to the source than take
the responsibility myself with the risk of defining things
wrongly, which would be distinctly bad form.

Specifically,
	coersion
	combinator
	eager evaluation
	high-order function
	lazy evaluation
	list comprehension
	pattern matching
	polymorphic
	side-effects
	strictly functional

thanks in advance.

-Michael N.	(e-mail: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au)

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