Re: [tlug] Today's TSAC Meeting

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Y-Combinators were discussed in this meeting and John Fremlin questioned
whether they they were useful for anything.  Here[1] is an example using
the Y-Combinator[2] in ruby to implement autovivication in Ruby hashes

Edward

1. http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/ruby/ycombinator.shtml
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator