Re:Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
by linguae on Thursday July 10, 2025 @01:34AM
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This tripped me up last week when I was reading Futamura’s paper on partial evaluation (i .e., Futamura projections). I’m not used to the “apply” terminology for functions, even though I learned the lambda calculus in grad school over a decade ago.
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