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Per WP:HYPHEN and a good proportion of sources. [[User:Tony1|<span class="texhtml" style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Tony1|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">'''Tony'''</font span>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">(talk)</font span>]]</span>]] 09:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

*'''Support''' in accord with Wikipedia's style guidelines&nbsp;– the appropriate point of reference for, um,&nbsp;... points of style on Wikipedia. <span style="color:blue;"><big>N</big><small>oetica</small></span>^{<small>[[User_talk:Noetica |Tea?]]</small>} 23:43, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

*'''<s>Meh</s>''' '''Weak support''' In my experience "fixed point combinator" is more common than "fixed-point combinator". Google Scholar seems to confirm this [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22fixed-point+combinator%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0], although the margins are not very wide. I would have to consult a few standard references first to form a strong opinion, as those would carry more weight. English is not my native language, but isn't there are rule for (not) using a hyphen for words of the form "(''adjective'' ''noun'') ''noun''" where (''adjective'' ''noun'') is used as an adjective? —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 12:07, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

**Your opinion is no less valid as a second-language speaker, Ruud. Where minority usage out there accords with WP's in-house style, we usually go with it, favouring internal consistency over inconsistency with ''some'' external sources. Here, there's a good reason to hyphenate, especially for non-experts: is it a point combinator that is fixed? And it's a compound adjective, isn't it, qualifying "combinator" the noun? "Point" might be a noun on the second "rank", but that's within the compound adjective. [[User:Tony1|<span class="texhtml" style="text-shadow:#BBBBBB 0.1em 0.1em 0.1em; class=texhtml">[[User:Tony1|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">'''Tony'''</font span>]] [[User talk:Tony1|<fontspan colorstyle="color:darkgreen;">(talk)</font span>]]</span>]] 12:54, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

*** I checked the indexes of a few of the books on my shelf and found one instance of "fixed-point combinator" and two of "[[fixed point theorem]]". The hyphenated could possibly be less ambiguous for some people. You might want to check with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics]] before (or after ;) moving all the theorems, though. Common spellings of obscure names don't always agree with common sense. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 19:54, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

****Most of the articles are already correctly punctuated. I updated [[Fixed-point theorem]] to reflect that. [[User:Dicklyon|Dicklyon]] ([[User talk:Dicklyon|talk]]) 20:59, 20 October 2011 (UTC)