A term is in normal form when it contains no β-redexes.
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- m.BetaNormal = (m.countRedexes = 0)
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Leftmost reduction: a β-reduction contracting the redex at position 0.
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In a normal-form application, both sides are normal and the operator is not an abstraction.
The body of a normal-form abstraction opens to a normal form.
Leftmost reduction preserves being an abstraction.
Left congruence for leftmost reduction, provided the target is not an abstraction.
Right congruence for leftmost reduction, provided the operator is a non-abstraction normal form.
Congruence for leftmost reduction on applications whose reduced operator is a non-abstraction normal form.
Call-by-Name reduction is contained in leftmost reduction.
Leftmost reduction preserves local closure.
Leftmost reduction is preserved by closing a variable and abstracting.
Cofinite congruence rule for leftmost reduction under an abstraction.
A standard reduction to a normal form is a leftmost reduction.
The leftmost reduction theorem: if a term β-reduces to a normal form, then leftmost reduction reaches it.