[Haskell-beginners] IO loops with tail call

Yasuyuki Ogawa yuka_pon20 at yahoo.co.jp
Tue Nov 9 07:17:43 EST 2010


Hi Edgar,

Thank you for interesting wiki pages!
Roughly speaking, because of laziness, tail recursion is not always 
necessary, modulo cons but useful enough...or something like that?
I'll study!

-- Yasuyuki

(2010/11/08 19:21), edgar klerks wrote:
> Hi Yasuyuki,
>
> Here is some resource Brent produced, why tail-recursion isn't that
> important in haskell:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-March/058607.html
> (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tail_recursion)
>
> I think it is nice to have some background (and it is pretty interesting).
>
> Greets,
>
> Edgar


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