From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:46:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr5oma4hq.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d3ec8301002101425k356b92e0p6ca2690d8cd6399d@mail.gmail.com>
>>> 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;
Nobody said otherwise. Eliminating the "rec" is also a feature.
Those two features are mostly incompatible, and many reasonable people
disagree on which one of the two is more important.
Stefan "who extensively used that feature in SML, but happens
to prefer the other feature nevertheless"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-15 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ 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 [this message]
2010-02-15 17:33 ` 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
2010-02-11 6:48 oleg
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