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From: Andrej Bauer <Andrej.Bauer@andrej.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Difference between "let rec" and just "let"?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:39:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A32A6F.4050505@andrej.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc2907b70808130652u70a9b3e9r4784c506f360b5f8@mail.gmail.com>

Jean Krivine wrote:
> Each time you use let, you can also use let rec,

Not quite. For example:

let x = 5 in
let x = x + 10 in
  x

is not equivalent to

let rec x = 5 in
let rec x = x + 10 in
  x

(In fact the second one doesn't compile.)

Andrej


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13 12:49 circ ular
2008-08-13 13:52 ` [Caml-list] " Jean Krivine
2008-08-13 18:39   ` Andrej Bauer [this message]
2008-08-13 15:17 ` Christophe TROESTLER

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