Comments on Ken Shirriff's blog: The Y Combinator in Arc and Java

It's actually not too terribly hard to use jav...

2009-06-08T15:43:57.573-07:00

It's actually not too terribly hard to use java generics to get a version of the Y combinator which isn't limited to int->int functions.

I did this about a year ago: http://dtm.livejournal.com/36832.html

You might be interested in Functional Java which i...

2009-03-02T14:06:00.000-08:00

You might be interested in Functional Java which implements other crazy stuff in Java.

Y0 dawg, I herd you like closures in your... Ah sc...

2009-03-02T07:08:00.000-08:00

Y0 dawg, I herd you like closures in your... Ah screw it, this is just madness

Anonymous, the difficulty in understanding how the...

2009-03-02T07:02:00.000-08:00

Anonymous, the difficulty in understanding how the Y combinator works has basically nothing to do with the variable names used. I promise that you wouldn't find it any easier with different names.

hey! listen mister! you guys can you guys can you ...

2009-03-02T06:53:00.000-08:00

hey! listen mister! you guys can you guys can you guys just use real variable names please this is hard to this is kind of hard to understand

thanks guys

System.out.println(new Object() { public int fac(i...

2009-03-02T06:49:00.000-08:00

System.out.println(new Object() { public int fac(int x) { return x < 2 ? x : x * fac(x - 1); } }.fac(5));

Not Y, but a reasonable approach to reasonably anonymous recursion in an unreasonable language.

Same thing in C# - http://blogs.msdn.com/madst/arc...

2009-03-02T06:47:00.000-08:00

Same thing in C# - http://blogs.msdn.com/madst/archive/2007/05/11/recursive-lambda-expressions.aspx