From: Garry Hodgson <garry@sage.att.com>
To: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] why the "rec" in "let rec"?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:04:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2003050710041052316284@kestrel.sage.att.com> (raw)
something i was always curious about: why do you need to
specify the "rec" in a "let rec" function definition? as opposed
to, say, having the compiler figure out when a function is recursive?
is it a compiler/grammar optimization? or to help the user, forcing them
to be precise with recursion? or required by the type system?
do other ML's do it this way?
just curious.
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next reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 14:04 Garry Hodgson [this message]
2003-05-07 14:31 ` Chris Uzdavinis
2003-05-07 14:50 ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-05-07 14:57 ` Hal Daume III
2003-05-07 15:11 ` Falk Hueffner
2003-05-07 15:16 ` David Brown
2003-05-07 15:53 ` Brian Hurt
2003-05-07 15:51 ` Garry Hodgson
2003-05-07 15:40 ` Neel Krishnaswami
2003-05-07 15:59 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2003-05-13 16:36 ` Pierre Weis
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