[plt-scheme] Applicative-order Y Combinator

Lightstar wrote:
> How does this function work? (below)
> I think that it is recursion but I have never seen anything use itself as a parameter before... ( (lambda (f) (f f)) ) could you explain this to me please?
>
> (define Y
>   (lambda (le)
>     ((lambda (f) (f f))
>      (lambda (f)
>        (le (lambda (x) ((f f) x)))))))
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I wrote a long blog post on this subject:

http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html

Mike