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!"

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