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:It's impossible to write a fixed-point combinator (or perform any recursion, for that matter) in any statically-typed language, without using either recursive functions or recursive types. --[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] 10:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
:It's impossible to write a fixed-point combinator (or perform any recursion, for that matter) in any statically-typed language, without using either recursive functions or recursive types. --[[User:Spoon!|Spoon!]] 10:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Spoon, The task does not rule out recursive types (I didn't know what they were at the time of writing) - just recursive functions. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 11:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)