Re: dependency analysis

[haskell-request]

Original-Via: uk.ac.ox.prg; Tue, 15 Oct 91 14:09:41 BST


| Tony Davie's remarks prompt me to ask: "Who needs mutually recursive modules
| anyway?".  I've never missed the facility in Miranda and my programs
| are much the clearer for it --- module dependency diagrams with NO
| directed cycles --- bliss!

The Haskell Committee for one, judging from the comments in section 5.4.1
of the report, stating that Prelude and PreludeCore are mutually recursive!

Mark