From: Grant Rettke <grettke@acm.org>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: WAS Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:27:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinu0XpRpDHlOKgeKdUdrv4FiHItBrEoO6tFuRDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002161808.21283.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> 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.
It wasn't about the "burden" of having to type 4 extra characters;
rather I was trying to understand the philosophy behind the langguage.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-29 21:27 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
2010-02-17 17:09 ` Andrej Bauer
2010-05-29 21:27 ` Grant Rettke
2010-05-29 21:27 ` Grant Rettke [this message]
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