Title: Haskell speakers may be daunted.
Product review: Despite the editorial description of the book, the book is really about Standard ML. It happens to have an appendix where source code has been translated -- out of order, and without reference to the text -- into Haskell. This makes it very difficult to read through the book without speaking Standard ML.The exercises, also, are only SML. Several appear to use idiosyncratic SML features -- I say "appear" because no answers to the exercises, even the basic ones, are provided for me to check my understanding.Essentially, the content is good, but expect to learn Standard ML to really get the most out of this book.
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