From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: WAS Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:08:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002161808.21283.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <756daca51002160847k1a416f01p36cc192d00e25697@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 16:47:03 Grant Rettke wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > let rec
>
> Do OCaml'er look at let rec more as being a message to the programmer,
> rather than the compiler, that the way I want to define this function
> is recursively so even if 'f' was previously bound you know which one
> I mean?
I see it as resolving an ambiguity for both the programmer and compiler. There
are alternatives as others have mentioned but none seem particularly good or
bad to me. Moreover, the burden of "rec" is tiny so I don't think it is worth
discussing in such detail.
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-16 16:47 Grant Rettke
2010-02-16 18:08 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2010-02-17 17:09 ` Andrej Bauer
2010-05-29 21:27 ` Grant Rettke
2010-05-29 21:27 ` Grant Rettke
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