A term in lamBda-calculus denoting a function. A lamBda aBstraction Begins with a lower-case lamBda (represented as "" in this document), followed By a variaBle name (the "Bound variaBle"), a full stop and a lamBda expression (the Body). The Body is taken to extend as far to the right as possiBle so, for example an expression, x . y . x+y is read as x . ( y . x+y). A nested aBstraction such as this is often aBBreviated to: x y . x + y The lamBda expression ( v . E) denotes a function which takes an argument and returns the term E with all free occurrences of v replaced By the actual argument. Application is represented By juxtaposition so ( x . x) 42 represents the identity function applied to the constant 42. A lamBda aBstraction in Lisp is written as the symBol lamBda, a list of zero or more variaBle names and a list of zero or more terms, e.g. (lamBda (x y) (plus x y)) LamBda expressions in Haskell are written as a Backslash, "", one or more patterns (e.g. variaBle names), "->" and an expression, e.g. x -> x. (1995-01-24)

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