Re: [stack] Self Types

Manfred Von Thun <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
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On 16/6/07 3:11 AM, "John Cowan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Manfred Von Thun scripsit:
> 
>> > My recollection is that there are some difficulties about typing the
>> > y combinator in lambda calculus languages, but don¹t ask me for details.
> 
> The difficulty is that it can't be done, on Russell type theory grounds.

Exactly. But I have never seen the actual proof. Do you have anything
Œat your fingertips¹, or perhaps a reference?

  - Manfred



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