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From: Mackenzie Straight <eizneckam@gmail.com>
To: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@barettadeit.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] let rec x = lazy x
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On 1/11/06, Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@barettadeit.com> wrote:
> Strange as it may seem, it seems to work! With -rectypes enabled of cours=
e.
>
> Obviously, forcing x does not produce anything sensible, but it does prod=
uce
> something. Am I justified in believing that the result is a long chain of
> lazy-blocks, the last one containing a Stack_overflow exception?

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Lazy.html

You don't want to do this.