Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action

Posted by viebel on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:34PM
from the self-post dept.

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by thecoughrans on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:36PM (#12249905)

What?

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by viebel on Monday August 08, 2016 @02:38PM (#12249918)

The Y combinator is one of the most beautiful idea in Computer Science: it allows to write recursive functions without using names at all!

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by biot on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:27PM (#12250278)

Did you mean to submit a link? Or is this just a generic "hey, let's discuss this subject" kind of post?

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by viebel on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:56PM (#12250446)

Oops, I forgot to submit the link. I opened a new story with the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12250435

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by jnewkirk on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:48PM (#12250398)

I think this may be exactly what the title suggests: a fixed point operator.

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Re:Lambda Calculus: The Y combinator in action by Apofis on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:39PM (#12251312)

What the hell is going on here!

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