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I thought maybe Haskell also prohibited circular references, but looking it up they do something called “tying the knot”, which is enabled by the language’s laz

I thought maybe Haskell also prohibited circular references, but looking it up they do something called “tying the knot”, which is enabled by the language’s laziness

solomatov 5y ago
You can't tie the knot in Rust. Tying the knot creates a self referential structure, which creates an ownership loop.