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Date: | 2010-02-15 (16:17) |
From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion |
On Monday 15 February 2010 15:46:58 Stefan Monnier wrote: > Till Varoquaux had written: > > 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" Standard ML doesn't have the feature that Till described. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e