From: "James Wong" <sin@nin.com>
Subject: Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 04:38:33 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dpOo9.1473$kW2.119394529@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5ofa9t8i0.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz
>
> While we are on the topic of Scheme and recursion:
> ((lambda (f n) (f f n))
> (lambda (f n) (if (= 0 n) 1 (* n (f f (- n 1))))) 5)
>
> Recursion without a function actually calling itself!
>
This was an "Extra for Experts" hw problem for us in Berkeley. I didn't get
it, so I tip my hat to you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-05 3:20 Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP gnuist
2002-10-05 7:51 ` Luke A. Olbrish
2002-10-05 10:46 ` William Elliot
2002-10-12 0:28 ` Alfred Einstead
2002-10-12 4:02 ` William Elliot
2002-10-05 11:44 ` David Kastrup
2002-10-09 4:38 ` James Wong [this message]
2002-10-09 4:48 ` William Elliot
2002-10-05 7:58 ` Charles Matthews
2002-10-05 8:05 ` Gareth McCaughan
2002-10-06 12:03 ` William Elliot
2002-10-06 19:22 ` Gareth McCaughan
2002-10-07 4:58 ` gnuist
2002-10-07 7:14 ` William Elliot
2002-10-07 7:37 ` Barb Knox
2002-10-07 9:34 ` David Kastrup
2002-10-07 9:59 ` William Elliot
2002-10-07 11:10 ` Barb Knox
2002-10-07 14:34 ` William Elliot
2002-10-07 10:44 ` Christian Lemburg
2002-10-08 1:02 ` ozan s yigit
2002-10-07 10:59 ` Barb Knox
2002-10-08 3:05 ` David Kastrup
2002-10-07 23:12 ` Gareth McCaughan
2002-10-07 9:54 ` William Elliot
2002-10-07 22:48 ` Gareth McCaughan
2002-10-08 8:42 ` William Elliot
2002-10-05 14:46 ` Fred Gilham
2002-10-05 16:15 ` Kaz Kylheku
2002-10-06 12:22 ` Thaddeus L Olczyk
2002-10-06 13:46 ` Joona I Palaste
2002-10-12 0:36 ` Alfred Einstead
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='dpOo9.1473$kW2.119394529@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com' \
--to=sin@nin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.