Eole

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lambda calculus evaluator

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Eole

A Lévy-optimal lambda calculus evaluator written in Rust

github.com

#lambda calculus#optimal reduction#lévy optimal#rust#evaluator

106points
9comments
#457of 2,195 in 2019
Top 21%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 1 comments about the project.

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Objections

  • Optimality and soundness not yet proven; counter-examples sought

    From 1 comment
    • Did you demonstrate that your trick is sound and optimal? Optimal reduction is a tricky beast and you might need to use a very high order function to find a counterexample.
      danharaj on HN

Requests

  • Demonstrate that the reduction is sound and optimal

    From 1 comment
    • Did you demonstrate that your trick is sound and optimal? Optimal reduction is a tricky beast and you might need to use a very high order function to find a counterexample.
      danharaj on HN

Questions

  • Does it support monads?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Formality

    From 1 comment
    • I wanted to point you to two almost similar efforts [0] [1] then I found your post [2]. You may be interested also in [3]. [0] https://github.com/moonad/Formality [1]…
      xorand on HN
  • chemlambda

    From 1 comment
    • I wanted to point you to two almost similar efforts [0] [1] then I found your post [2]. You may be interested also in [3]. [0] https://github.com/moonad/Formality [1]…
      xorand on HN

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