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zerr
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Haskell for OCaml programmers
A question: Why ML family languages need `rec` for recursive functions while other languages do not?
eatonphil
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CHY872
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They don't. Standard ML has the `fun` keyword which does what you want. OCaml has it, but it could easily be for legacy reasons - it's hardly a sticking point!
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