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From: "Alexander V. Voinov" <avv@quasar.ipa.nw.ru>
To: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] syntax foo
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:47:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C61965C.E6C00DD5@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020206204142.GB32204@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at>

Hi All,

Markus Mottl wrote:
> > let*-form, ie. a sequence of bindings, each of which is in the scope of the

I also don't understand (maybe I've read this long ago and forgot the
underlying reasoning) why the burden on distinguishing between 'let' and
'let rec' is laid on the programmer? Can't a parser figure out when a
function is recursive and when not? I believed that in a functional
language all functions are recursive by default.

Alexander
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-06 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-05 20:48 james woodyatt
2002-02-05 21:21 ` Jérôme Marant
2002-02-06 15:30   ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-06 18:25     ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-06 19:58       ` Lauri Alanko
2002-02-06 20:41         ` Markus Mottl
2002-02-06 20:47           ` Alexander V. Voinov [this message]
2002-02-07  1:43       ` Brian Rogoff
2002-02-06 19:08     ` Alexander V. Voinov
2002-02-06 19:10     ` David Brown

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