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diff --git a/standard-ml.html.markdown b/standard-ml.html.markdown index b545f3e1..cc5132f1 100644 --- a/standard-ml.html.markdown +++ b/standard-ml.html.markdown @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ contributors: Standard ML is a functional programming language with type inference and some side-effects. Some of the hard parts of learning Standard ML are: Recursion, pattern matching, type inference (guessing the right types but never allowing -implicit type conversion). If you have an imperative background, not being able -to update variables can feel severely inhibiting. +implicit type conversion). Standard ML is distinguished from Haskell by including +references, allowing variables to be updated. ```ocaml (* Comments in Standard ML begin with (* and end with *). Comments can be |