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Re:Fixed-Point Combinator by mrkeen on Saturday February 24, 2024 @08:46AM (#39491443)
I don't think the laziness is as important as the namelessness.

It's for when you want to recurse (a function calling its own name) in an environment where you don't have names (the lambda calculus).

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