From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Shishir Ramam <sramam@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] trouble w/ recursive let definitions.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:29:36 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408151627180.4282-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83f599680408151005288b6bf9@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Shishir Ramam wrote:
> Hi,
> I might be missing something here, but recursive let definitions have me a
> little confused. The two cases below narrow down my problem. Why is case-2
> invalid?
rec binds with the let, and not the function name. This gets me
occassionally as well. So if you have:
let rec f ... = ...
and g ... = ...
both f and g are recursive functions. All of the functions you define
after with however many 'and' clauses are all recursive.
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Brian
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2004-08-15 17:05 Shishir Ramam
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