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Tip revision: 18d2e853f6455b2c36a3c12a44c6ec85c64263ec authored by Ben Hearsum on 11 October 2012, 15:31:21 UTC
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Y.js
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */

// The Y combinator, applied to the factorial function

function factorial(proc) {
    return function (n) {
        return (n <= 1) ? 1 : n * proc(n-1);
    }
}

function Y(outer) {
    function inner(proc) {
        function apply(arg) {
            return proc(proc)(arg);
        }
        return outer(apply);
    }
    return inner(inner);
}

print("5! is " + Y(factorial)(5));
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