For those interested, I'd skip the baby-tutorials to the Y fpc and just look at the "math": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combinator htt

For those interested, I'd skip the baby-tutorials to the Y fpc and just look at the "math": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combinator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combin... Once you see that you just end up applying the function to itself repeatedly, it makes a lot more sense. It's also 5 lines to read, instead of paragraphs.