In defence of the two-namespace rule

Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Fri Jan 28 10:56:09 EST 2000


In article <slrn891l2f.5tk.cjc26 at bridget.mindriot.net>,
Cliff Crawford <cjc26 at nospam.cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>	(kicked(the ball))(John)
>
>In that last one, "kicked" represents a curried (or
>Schoenfinkelized :) function; it is a function which takes a noun
>phrase X as its argument and which returns another function which
>takes a noun phrase Y as its argument and returns true if Y
>kicked X.  I.e.:
>
>	kicked = lambda(X) (lambda(Y) (if Y kicked X: 1
>	                               else: 0))

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