On 4 May 2010 13:30, Luke Palmer <lrpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a contrived example of what I am referring to: > > prefac f 0 = 1 > prefac f n = n * f (n-1) > > fac = (\x -> x x) (\x -> prefac (x x))
I can't work out how this works (or should work rather); is it meant to be using church numerals or something (assuming that they have been made an instance of Num so that - and * work)? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe