On 4/12/13 5:40 PM, glen wrote:
Iteration is most aligned with stateful repetition. Recursion is most
aligned with stateless repetition.
Purely functional constructs can capture iteration, though.
$ cat foo.hs
import Control.Monad.State
import Control.Monad.Loops
inc :: State Int Bool
inc = do i <- get
put (i + 1)
return (i < 10)
main = do
putStrLn (show (runState (whileM inc get) 5))
$ ghc --make foo.hs
$ ./foo
([6,7,8,9,10],11)
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