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or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon Introduction…

34 The Y Combinator (Slight Return) or: How to Succeed at Recursion Without Really Recursing Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Lisper got to sit and wonder, (Y (Y Y))? Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Lisper got to tell himself he understand. - Kurt Vonnegut, modified by Darius Bacon Introduction I recently wrote a blog post about the Y combinator. Since then, I've received so many useful comments that I thought it was appropriate to expand the post into a more complete article. This article will go into greater depth on the subject, but I hope it'll be more comprehensible as well. You

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