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Is there something that isn't "self-recursion"?

• Jtsummers 3y ago
  Mutual recursion. Horrible example, don’t use this: even 0 = true even n = not (odd n-1) odd 0 = false odd n = not (even n-1)
  • bewaretheirs 3y ago
    That should be even 0 = true even n = odd n-1 odd 0 = false odd n = even n-1 I fed a C version of this (with unsigned n to keep the nasal daemons at bay) to clang and observed that it somehow manages to see through the mutual recursion, generating code that doesn't recurse or loop.
    • Jtsummers 3y ago
      You are correct, I don't know why I put the nots in there. Either way, demonstrates mutual recursion.