[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Displaying # of reductions after eachcomputation in ghci?

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Mon Jan 14 17:03:25 EST 2008


Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> What is a reduction anyway?

I am not an expert but I thought in lambda calculus one has primitive rules
for evaluation, e.g. beta reduction. So a reduction is a 'smallest step' in
reducing an expression to normal form, no?

Cheers
Ben



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