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The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] The need to specify 'rec' in a recursive function defintion

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.

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