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Playing off the fact that the “Y” clearly didn’t stand for “yes,” ... Uhh, no. Y-Combinator is a nod to the fixed point combinator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by ptc 14y ago
Playing off the fact that the “Y” clearly didn’t stand for “yes,” ...
Uhh, no. Y-Combinator is a nod to the fixed point combinator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combinator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combin...
- railsjedi 14y agoSure, of course, and the "n" is a nReduce isn't really an n. Stands for "Eta Reduction". http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Eta_conversion http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Eta_conversion But names are just names. We tried to have a bit of fun with ours.