On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Martin Drautzburg <martin.drautzb...@web.de > wrote:
> Just a silly quick question: why isn't right-recursion a similar problem? > Very roughly: Left recursion is: let foo n = n + foo n in ... Right recursion is: let foo 1 = 1; foo n = n + foo (n - 1) in ... In short, matching the tokens before the right recursion will constitute an end condition that will stop infinite recursion --- if only because you'll hit the end of the input. Left recursion doesn't consume anything, just re-executes itself. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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