On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Rick Hanson <cryptor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I admit that I didn't watch the video;
You should ! The guy is funny. Alternatively you can read a page where I translate every step to PicoLisp: http://galerie.microalg.info/profgra:tests:y_combinator with live code samples (runnable and tweakable ones). > so I don't know why `code` is > even needed, considering that the following expression (which is your > original expression but without `code` parts) gives you what you want > anyway. This little program is just a step in a transformation that exhibits the Y combinator. «code» is meant to be bound to this code: '((partial) (list '(n) (list 'if '(=0 n) 1 (list '* 'n (list partial '(- n 1)))))) so we can replace this last line only with «code» in the program. chri -- http://profgra.org/lycee/ (site pro) http://delicious.com/profgraorg (liens, favoris) https://twitter.com/profgraorg http://microalg.info (langage de programmation pédagogique) http://expressions.club/ (structure des expressions mathématiques) -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
