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• masklinn 4y ago
  The Y combinator.
  • amalgamated_inc 4y ago
    Oh is this some Common Lisp thing? Never done it.
    • masklinn 4y ago
      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.