Hi Stefan The bird names for combinators stem from Raymond Smullyan's book - To Mock a Mockingbird (this is second-hand knowledge as I don't have my own copy - though I think I've just obliged to get myself one as a post-Christmas treat).
The other names B1 B2 and the more common S K I C W etc - many of these surely date back to Schonfinkel, but maybe some of the exotic ones are due to David Turner as he used a particular set to implement the pioneering functional language SASL (again this is all second hand knowledge via Antoni Diller's excellent, but out of print book 'Compiling Functional Languages'). Best wishes Stephen 2009/12/29 Stefan Holdermans <ste...@cs.uu.nl>: > Stephen, > >> oo f g = (f .) . g > >> ooo f g = ((f .) .) . g > > > Why are these also called blackbird and bunting? > > Thanks, > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
