[Hugs-users] Avoiding use of the stack

[Josef Svenningsson]

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> Subject: Re: [Hugs-users] Avoiding use of the stack
> 
> G'day all.
> 
> Quoting Scott Turner <p.turner at computer.org>:
> 
> >     testR2' a n = (testR2' $! (a+n)) (n-1)
> 
> Proving, once again, that the associativity of $! is wrong. :-)
> 
In what sense is it wrong, and in what sense does this example show that?

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here.

	/Josef