Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 17:15:57 +0100
From: Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Restrictions of let rec
Hello,
working with OCaml I recently found the following (syntactic?)
restriction quite odd. Consider:
let rec f = f' some_defaul_arg
and f' v = function ... -> ...f' v' x... | ... -> ...f y... | ...
The compiler argues that "this kind of expression is not allowed with
`let rec'", probably because the RHS of f is neither an abstraction nor
a constructor application nor does f appear in it.
I know it's easy to avoid this by doing eta conversion, but I don't see
the point in disallowing such definitions. What's the rationale? Maybe
it's an oversight and the compiler should actually check whether f
appears on _any_ RHS of the let rec?
- Andreas
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jan 02 2000 - 11:58:13 MET