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Normal-order beta reduction

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Normal-order beta reduction contracts the leftmost outermost beta-redex. If a lambda term has a beta-normal form, this strategy reaches it. It is useful for implementing Church Boolean conditionals because an unused branch can be discarded before it is evaluated.

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