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The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
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| Date: | 2010-02-10 (10:15) |
| From: | rossberg@m... |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion |
Jon Harrop: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:01:03 Gerd Stolpmann wrote: >> In the ML community it is consensus that a recursive function is a total >> different thing than a non-recursive function... > > Note that Standard ML does this differently to CAML/OCaml. Not quite -- SML simply defines "fun f x = ..." to be an abbreviation for "val rec f = fn x => ...". /Andreas