Church encoding

A means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus, by forming them into a mathematical structure embedded in the lambda calculus.

Noun

  1. A means of representing data and operators in the lambda calculus, by forming them into a mathematical structure embedded in the lambda calculus.

Origin

Named after Alonzo Church.

Forms

Church encodings

Related

Church numeral Church pair Church's theorem

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