Coding in ML

The beginning of Independent Study is relatively coding heavy, but as the year progresses and you find yourself sucked deeper into the induction vortex, you may forget your ML skills. (Or maybe you forgot your book and it's a lab day.) That's where these pages come in.

The "it" Value

 * When you enter a value into the interpreter without assigning it to an identifier, it is automatically assigned to the default value "it".
 * "it" can only store one value at a time.
 * You can use the value saved under the name "it" just like other saved values.

Comments
The block comment operators in SML are "  and ". Block comments can not be nested, and there is no separate operator for in-line comments. Example: