Harald ROTTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe: > I read about the usage of "fix" to define recursive functions. Although I > think that I understood how to use "fix", I still wonder what the > advantages of "fix" are (as compared to the "conventional" approach to > define recursive functions).
You might enjoy this paper: Bruce J. McAdam, 1997. That about wraps it up: Using FIX to handle errors without exceptions, and other programming tricks. Tech. Rep. ECS-LFCS-97-375, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh. http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/reports/97/ECS-LFCS-97-375/ -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
