On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 9:27:28 PM UTC, Mark Hamburg wrote: > > One can return a partial function application and it looks just like any > other function, so in the general case, it can't be garbage collected. This > isn't special to JavaScript. In fact, JavaScript doesn't support partial > function application. What JavaScript, Elm, and pretty much any other > language that purports to be functional does support is capturing values > through closure creation and because those closures can be returned as > values, they need to be subject to garbage collection. >
Thanks for this explanation, I get it now. I will try and work out an example of how the mutually recursive functions can create a cyclic structure on the heap, based on this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
