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February 3, 2015 16:17
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What's wrong with my Y Combinator?
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;; I'm hitting my head against a wall trying to implement the Y Combinator in SKI in Clojure | |
;; Anyone with experience implementing it, or is able to detect what's wrong here? | |
(defn I [x] x) | |
#_=> #'user/I | |
(def K (fn [x] (fn [y] x))) | |
#_=> #'user/K | |
(def S (fn [x] (fn [y] (fn [z] ((x z)(y z)))))) | |
#_=> #'user/S | |
;; The culprit: | |
(def Y ((S (K ((S I) I))) ((S ((S (K S)) K)) (K ((S I) I))))) | |
#_=> #'user/Y | |
;; fac work fine with a straight port of the Y combinator in Clojure, | |
;; so this one is probably not the issue. | |
(def fac (fn [f] (fn [n] (if (zero? n) 1 (* n (f (dec n))))))) | |
#_=> #'user/fac | |
((Y fac) 10) | |
;; StackOverflowError user/S/fn--844/fn--845 (NO_SOURCE_FILE:1) | |
((Y fac) 1) | |
;; StackOverflowError user/S/fn--844/fn--845 (NO_SOURCE_FILE:1) | |
((Y fac) 0) | |
;; StackOverflowError user/S/fn--844/fn--845 (NO_SOURCE_FILE:1) |
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