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WAS Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion
- Grant Rettke
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| Date: | 2010-02-16 (16:47) |
| From: | Grant Rettke <grettke@a...> |
| Subject: | WAS Re: [Caml-list] Re: The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion |
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Ashish Agarwal <agarwal1975@gmail.com> wrote: > let rec Do OCaml'er look at let rec more as being a message to the programmer, rather than the compiler, that the way I want to define this function is recursively so even if 'f' was previously bound you know which one I mean? Considering the language allows mutation, I feel like it is more for humans than the compiler, but of course, the compiler must be told, too.