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The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
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Date: | 2010-02-15 (20:36) |
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