[Haskell-cafe] Re: Web server continued

Cristian Baboi cristi at ot.onrc.ro
Mon Dec 31 07:50:34 EST 2007


On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:36:02 +0200, Joost Behrends <webmaster at h-labahn.de>  
wrote:

> I forgot 2 things:
>>
>> The distinction between '=' and '==' is much like in C, although mixing
>> them up is not so dangerous like in C. ':=' and '=' like in Wirth
>> languages would be nicer.
>>

> Strangely nobody reacted on this. That a=a+1 is an infinite recursion  
> here

What is more strange is that a = a + 1 and a = 1 + a are somehow distinct.
The second give a stack overflow almost instanly, but the first don't.



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