Re: [Caml-list] beginner question about tail recursion

[skaller <skaller@ozemail.com.au>]

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 16:33, Matt Gushee wrote:

> 2. The recursive call can't be within a 'try' block.

I think that is not quite the correct rule, the rule should
be that the call can't cross a try block boundary.
For example:

let g x = 
	let y = 
		try h x with _ -> []
	in g y

This example _contains_ a try block.

let f x = 
	try
		let g x = h x
		in g x
	with _ -> ...

this example is _contained in_ a try block.

Both have tail calls to g. But in this example:

1  let rec readlines chnl =
2    try
3      let line = input_line chnl in
4      line :: (readlines chnl)
5    with End_of_file -> []

the call of readlines _crosses_ a try
block boundary.


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