On Feb 18, 2007, at 22:22 , P. R. Stanley wrote:

is there another general pattern for mylen, head or tail?

Those are basically it, aside from optionally replacing the unused variables with _.

What are the pre-requisites for Lambda calculus?

Lambda calculus isn't related to what's normally called "calculus"; while some basic math and logic are useful, you don't really need much of a formal or complex math background to unravel it. See for example the early parts of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Lambda_calculus for an introduction. (The later parts quickly become hard to digest until you've understood the earlier ones; the Wikipedia article is more a reference than an introduction.)

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