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Comment by bjourne

6 months ago

Does it handle alpha-renaming? Most of the golfed interpreters I've seen over the years does not and hence does not handle the full untyped lambda calculus.

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tromp  6 months ago

Binary Lambda Calculus uses de-Bruijn indices [1], thereby avoiding the need for alpha renaming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index

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