Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
Rainer Deyke
rainerd at eldwood.com
Fri Oct 17 16:49:29 EDT 2003
Ray Blaak wrote:
> Actually you do need a name. The Y combinator is just a way to give a
> name to the anonymous function, where the name is a parameter name.
> It is only with that name that the recursive invocation is done.
This is technically not true. See
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/unlambda/#lambda_elim.
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