Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!NTP server version 1.5 (26 Feb 88) ready at Wed Aug 10 1!willc From: willc@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Will Clinger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: a simple miranda problem Summary: try associating to the left Keywords: functional programming Message-ID: <2921@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM> Date: 10 Aug 88 18:24:48 GMT References:Sender: ftp@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM Reply-To: willc@tekchips.CRL.TEK.COM (Will Clinger) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 28 I've never programmed in Miranda, but the standard practice in functional languages is to associate to the left. Thus I believe the Miranda program answer = twice twice twice suc 0 twice f x = f (f x) suc x = x + 1 would be written in Scheme as (define twice (lambda (f) (lambda (x) (f (f x))))) (define suc (lambda (x) (+ x 1))) (define answer ((twice (twice (twice suc))) 0)) and so the answer is 8. William Clinger Semantic Microsystems, Inc.