[m-dev.] For review: doco on conditional expressions

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Sep-1998, David Glen JEFFERY <dgj at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 22-Sep-1998, Thomas Charles CONWAY <conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> >  A data-term is either a variable, a data-functor, a higher-order
> > -function application, or a lambda expression.
> > +function application, conditional expression or a lambda expression.
> 
> I'm a little confused by this. How can a conditional expression be used as a
> data term other than inside a lambda expression?

Let me give you an example:

	f(X) = (if X > 0 then 42 else 43).

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