27 May
2016
27 May
'16
10:55 p.m.
On 27 May 2016 at 10:42, Kjell Godo squeaklist@gmail.com wrote:
Object>>recurse: aZeroInputValuable"ThatReturnsATwoInputValuable"
^( aZeroInputValuable value ) value:( self )value:[ :anObject | anObject recurse: aZeroInputValuable ]
"Object>>recurse:
does for recursion what >>do: does for iteration
it enables any Object O to do recursion Without writing a new recursive method in the Class of O
Yep. Unless my eyes deceive me, that's the Y combinator. You can see a more classically academic implementation at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Y_combinator#Smalltalk
frank