why is this legal

Hal Daume III hdaume@ISI.EDU
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:11:54 -0800 (PST)


f x = f' 0 x
    where f' acc [] = acc
          f acc (x:xs) = f' (x+acc) xs

why are we allowed to rebind f in the where clause?  this is clearly a
typo (in this instance) but it seems really strange to me that this would
be allowed.

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