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		teiferer 86 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming with Less Than Nothing > let A = (x) => (y) => (z) => x(z)(y((w) => z)) What is w?

tromp 86 days ago [–]

The name for a dummy argument that is not used. We could also write A as \x y z => x z (y (K z)), since K is the const function that ignores its second argument and returns the first.

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