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-Conversion primarily consists of the 
process of substituting a bound variable in the body of
a lambda abstraction by the argument passed to the function
whenever it is applied. This process is called 
-reduction.
The inverse process to convert a 
-reduced lambda expression
back to the reducible expression is another  aspect of
-conversion and is called 
-abstraction.
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Georg Loczewski
2003-08-07