On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Manuel Paccagnella
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> The only advantage that I know of to naming
>> local functions with letfn is that you can put mutually recursive
>> functions in letfn, or, more generally, functions that refer to one
>> another in a circular manner. With plain let, functions later in the
>> let can refer to ones earlier in the let but not vice versa so you can
>> manage by putting them in the right order if there aren't any
>> circularities but you need letfn if there are circularities (barring
>> ugly hacks involving atoms or similar).
>
> Clear explanation, thank you Cedric!

You're welcome.

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