Jeremy Apthorp | 27 Aug 23:32
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Re: Compiler's bane

2008/8/28 Lennart Augustsson <lennart <at> augustsson.net>:
> You can get rid of all recursive bindings by transforming them into a
> use of a fixpoint combinator.
> And then you can use a non-recursive definition of the fixpoint
> combinator, and never worry about recursive bindings again.

This[1] might be a good explanation of why that works. It helped me
understand it, at least.

[1] - http://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html

Jeremy

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