From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unexpected restriction in "let rec" expressions
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:18:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <958FA43C-037A-47D3-9352-682443875A69@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f9f8f4a0802260424o5bce2fd9i89fbfa38bb239a6a@mail.gmail.com>
On 2008-02-26, at 13:24, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> This kind of expression is not allowed as right-hand side of `let rec'
>
> Any ideas about what is this restriction, an what is it for?
The restriction is documented in section 7.3 of the reference manual,
and it's here to make recursive definitions work correctly under
eager evaluation.
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 12:24 Loup Vaillant
2008-02-26 14:04 ` [Caml-list] " Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2008-02-26 14:18 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2008-02-26 14:34 ` Loup Vaillant
2008-02-26 14:51 ` Gabriel Kerneis
2008-02-26 14:56 ` blue storm
2008-02-26 17:48 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-02-26 14:57 ` Dirk Thierbach
2008-02-27 8:53 ` Andrej Bauer
2008-02-27 9:43 ` Loup Vaillant
2008-02-27 12:02 ` Dirk Thierbach
2008-02-27 14:04 ` Loup Vaillant
2008-02-27 16:41 ` Dirk Thierbach
2008-02-27 23:32 ` Loup Vaillant
2008-02-27 19:03 ` Pal-Kristian Engstad
2008-02-27 23:46 ` Loup Vaillant
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