21 Jun
2009
21 Jun
'09
5:05 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Andrew
Coppin
OK, so I'm guessing there might be one or two (!) people around here who know something about the Lambda calculus.
I've written a simple interpretter that takes any valid Lambda expression and performs as many beta reductions as possible. When the input is first received, all the variables are renamed to be unique.
Question: Does this guarantee that the reduction sequence will never contain name collisions?
I have a sinking feeling that it does not. However, I can find no counter-example as yet. If somebody here can provide either a proof or a counter-example, that would be helpful.
It seems obvious scince beta reduction never introduces new variales... -- Victor Nazarov