[Haskell-cafe] Lazy evaluation and tail-recursion

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Mar 16 20:39:35 CET 2011


On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> Tail recursion is good for strict stuff, otherwise the above pattern - I 
> think it's called guarded recursion - is better, have the recursive call as 
> a non-strict field of a constructor.

In
   http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tail_recursion
  it is also called 'guarded recursion', however the linked article is yet 
to be written ...



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