Isn't this tail recursive?

Kevin Glynn glynn@info.ucl.ac.be
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:41:40 +0100 (MET)


Looking at the online GHC Users Guide,  this flag is documented in 

4.19.14. Individual optimisations 

This has a link to Section 4.11.2, but -fall-strict isn't described in 
that section.  Presumably its only been half removed (added) from the
documentation.

k


Simon Marlow writes:
 > > On 10 Mar 2002, Jyrinx wrote:
 > > 
 > 
 > > Never fear,
 > > -fall-strict is here!
 > 
 > I had no idea this flag still worked.  As I recall, it was an experiment
 > that turned out to be a bad idea - you're probably just better off using
 > seq.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > 	Simon
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