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If that's your worry then you can probably use the site's namesake. Though simple recursion is generally easy to spot.
by masklinn 4y ago
If that's your worry then you can probably use the site's namesake. Though simple recursion is generally easy to spot.
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoWhich site's namesake? Hacker News?
- masklinn 4y agoThe Y combinator.
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoOh is this some Common Lisp thing? Never done it.
- masklinn 4y agoIt'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.