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How important are circular lists/recursive objects?
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Date: | 2007-04-03 (07:00) |
From: | Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@f...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] How important are circular lists/recursive objects? |
Brian Hurt wrote: > Does anyone actually use this construct, and if so, for what? When I teach my students "theory" of programming languages, we write interpreters for mini languages. The recursive data structures are used to create closures of recursive functions, environments that contain mutually recursive values, closures of objects, etc. Life would be very hard without this feature. Andrej