Whilst looking for something entirely different I came across this
very interesting fragment.
Takaaki Tateishi(ttate@...) has been playing Joy-like dirty
tricks in the Ruby (www.ruby-lang.org) scripting langauge...
http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp/~ttate/ftp/rec.rb
It is an example of defining a recursive Proc object using Y
combinator.
I'm very impressed.
The Programming Ruby book is helpful in trying to understand what Takaaki
is doing..
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_proc.html
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_m_kernel.html#Kernel.proc
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