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curryhoward
on Sept 11, 2018
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Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript
This is actually the Z combinator, which is the eta expansion of the Y combinator. The Y combinator only works in languages with non-strict semantics, but JavaScript is call-by-value.
braythwayt
on Sept 11, 2018
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This is included as a footnote in TFA.
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