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The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Stefan Monnier <monnier@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion |
>> 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.
It sure does, tho not with "fun" but only with "var" definitions.
Stefan