;; Copyright (c) 2013 Duncan McGreggor ;; ;; Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ;; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ;; You may obtain a copy of the License at ;; ;; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ;; ;; Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ;; distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ;; WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ;; See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ;; limitations under the License. ;; File : church.lfe ;; Author : Duncan McGreggor ;; Purpose : Demonstrating church numerals from the lambda calculus ;; The code below was used to create the section of the user guide here: ;; http://lfe.github.io/user-guide/recursion/5.html ;; ;; Here is some example usage: ;; ;; > (slurp '"church.lfe") ;; #(ok church) ;; > (zero) ;; #Fun ;; > (church->int1 (zero)) ;; 0 ;; > (church->int1 (three)) ;; 3 ;; > (church->int1 (five)) ;; 5 ;; > (church->int2 #'five/0) ;; 5 ;; > (church->int2 (lambda () (get-church 25))) ;; 25 (defmodule church (export all)) (defun zero () (lambda (s) (lambda (x) x))) (defun one () (lambda (s) (lambda (x) (funcall s x)))) (defun two () (lambda (s) (lambda (x) (funcall s (funcall s x))))) (defun three () (lambda (s) (lambda (x) (funcall s (funcall s (funcall s x)))))) (defun four () (lambda (s) (lambda (x) (funcall s (funcall s (funcall s (funcall s x))))))) (defun five () (get-church 5)) (defun int-successor (n) (+ n 1)) (defun church->int1 (church-numeral) " Converts a called church numeral to an integer, e.g.: > (church->int1 (five)) " (funcall (funcall church-numeral #'int-successor/1) 0)) (defun church->int2 (church-numeral) " Converts a non-called church numeral to an integer, e.g.: > (church->int2 #'five/0) " (funcall (funcall (funcall church-numeral) #'int-successor/1) 0)) (defun church-successor (church-numeral) (lambda (s) (lambda (x) (funcall s (funcall (funcall church-numeral s) x))))) (defun get-church (church-numeral count limit) (cond ((== count limit) church-numeral) ((/= count limit) (get-church (church-successor church-numeral) (+ 1 count) limit)))) (defun get-church (integer) (get-church (zero) 0 integer))