[racket-dev] Documentation bug - 12.6.3: Reading numbrs

2010-07-27 Thread The Configurator
At the end of part 12.6.3 of the docs in http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html, it gives some examples Examples: -1 reads equal to -1 1/2 reads equal to (/ 1 2) 1.0 reads equal to (inexact-exact 1) 1+2i reads equal to (make-complex 1 2) 1/2+3/4i reads equal to

Re: [racket-dev] using the Y combinator to...

2010-08-04 Thread The Configurator
I'll hijack the thread since I've been meaning to ask about the Y combinator. From SICP I've seen that the Y combinator is the function (define (y f) ((lambda (x) (f (x x))) (lambda (x) (f (x x) This makes mathematical sense, since (y f) = ((lambda (x) (f (x x))) (lambda (x) (f (x x