John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>      What a mess.  That's some professor inventing his very own variation on
> predicate calculus and writing a book using his own notation and terminology.

I thought it was all pretty standard.  It's the same notation I see in
other PL stuff.

> There's no sign of footnotes or references to prior work.

Maybe he'll add that.  It's a work in progress.  

>      Back when I was doing program verification work, we used to refer to
> stuff like that as the "logic of the month club".

I thought the book was pretty good and I've learned quite a bit from
the parts I've read.  Also, the author is one of the big cheeses in
the SML world, if that matters.
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