There's an explanation of the Y-combinator (with examples in C#) linked from this article at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-lambda-

There's an explanation of the Y-combinator (with examples in C#) linked from this article at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-lambda-expressions.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-l... It's not easy to follow, but thought others might be interested.