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* letrec
@ 2010-09-01 14:35 Eric J. Van der Velden
  2010-09-01 15:24 ` letrec Andy Wingo
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From: Eric J. Van der Velden @ 2010-09-01 14:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guile-user

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Hello,

I understand that let can be made with a lambda, for example

(let((r 5))
    (display r)
)

((lambda(r)
      (display r)
)5)

Can something like this be done with letrec ?

Thanks,

Eric J.

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* Re: letrec
  2010-09-01 14:35 letrec Eric J. Van der Velden
@ 2010-09-01 15:24 ` Andy Wingo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andy Wingo @ 2010-09-01 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric J. Van der Velden; +Cc: guile-user

On Wed 01 Sep 2010 07:35, "Eric J. Van der Velden" <ericjvandervelden@gmail.com> writes:

> Can something like this be done with letrec ?

Only via something like the Y combinator.

http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/WhyOfY.pdf

Andy
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