From: Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:21:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8be5ae21002160821t5d848240p3259b08759be3d6e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbpfp5jk5.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1086 bytes --]
It may be worth recalling the OCaml koans at
http://eigenclass.org/hiki/fp-ocaml-koans. The first one is:
let rec
One day, a disciple of another sect came to Xavier Leroy and said mockingly:
"The OCaml compiler seems very limited: why do you have to indicate when a
function is recursive, cannot the compiler infer it?"
Xavier paused for a second, and replied patiently with the following story:
"One day, a disciple of another sect came to Xavier Leroy and said
mockingly..."
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:
> > It sure does, tho not with "fun" but only with "var" definitions.
> ^^^
> val
>
> Stefan "blush!"
>
> _______________________________________________
> Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management:
> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
> Archives: http://caml.inria.fr
> Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners
> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
>
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2031 bytes --]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-16 16:22 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 ` [Caml-list] " Till Varoquaux
2010-02-11 1:48 ` 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 ` Ashish Agarwal [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=d8be5ae21002160821t5d848240p3259b08759be3d6e@mail.gmail.com \
--to=agarwal1975@gmail.com \
--cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
--cc=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).