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There's been lots of chatter about maps on the mailing list; but the named inline functions thing is totally out of the blue to me, and totally welcome. Erlang
by colanderman 13y ago
There's been lots of chatter about maps on the mailing list; but the named inline functions thing is totally out of the blue to me, and totally welcome. Erlang does such a great job of fixing everything that OCaml almost but didn't quite get right.
- nox_ 13y agoImplementor here. Richard O'Keefe deserves all the credit as he had the idea and suggested the syntax (EEP 37). I just noticed that it was easy to implement it through let rec expressions in Core Erlang. No VM changes were required.
- siraaj 13y agoCould you elaborate on what you feel OCaml didn't quite get right WRT recursive definitions?