From: Till Varoquaux <till@pps.jussieu.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:25:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d3ec8301002101425k356b92e0p6ca2690d8cd6399d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfx58wy1c.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Wouldn't one of way of detecting a recursive function would be to see
>> if the indeed the function calls itself?
>
> That's what Haskell does, yes.
>
>
Let's make things clear here: the "rec" *really* is a feature; it is
very convenient to reuse the same identifier to express something in
the process of being built (e.g. something going through a pipeline).
For instance:
let g () =
let f s =
if !debug then
Printf.printf "f is called with value: %s\n%!" s
f s
in
.......
Some (including me) would even argue that it is sad that type
definitions don't use "rec".
Till
> Stefan
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-10 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-09 20:50 Saptarshi Guha
2010-02-09 21:55 ` [Caml-list] " Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-09 22:14 ` Saptarshi Guha
2010-02-09 22:01 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-02-09 21:58 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-09 22:34 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2010-02-10 0:07 ` Guillaume Yziquel
2010-02-10 3:10 ` Alain Frisch
2010-02-09 22:16 ` Saptarshi Guha
2010-02-09 23:29 ` Jon Harrop
2010-02-10 10:15 ` rossberg
2010-02-10 7:19 ` Andrej Bauer
2010-02-10 9:36 ` Francois Maurel
2010-02-10 10:12 ` rossberg
2010-02-09 23:33 ` Jon Harrop
2010-02-09 22:31 ` Saptarshi Guha
2010-02-10 0:12 ` Jon Harrop
2010-02-10 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-10 22:25 ` Till Varoquaux [this message]
2010-02-11 1:48 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2010-02-15 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-15 17:33 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2010-02-15 20:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-16 14:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-16 16:21 ` [Caml-list] " Ashish Agarwal
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