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masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36
2023-01-05 15:56:58
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The Y combinator.
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amalgamated_inc | karma 512 | avg karma 0.99
2023-01-05 16:07:22
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Oh is this some Common Lisp thing? Never done it.
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masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36
2023-01-05 16:13:28
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It's much older, it's lambda calculus stuff. It's a way to implement recursion in a language which doesn't have recursive functions (but for some reason does have first-class functions).
However it allows making anonymous functions recurse as well.
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