From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-08-26T00:10:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite/Ruby2.0 & Ruby vs OCaml

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:23:56PM +0900, Jason Watkins wrote:
> OCaml is a fine language, but it certainly is not as fun as ruby... unless
> you're a functional languages geek :P.

I'm not sure that even functional languages geeks would approve of OCaml. I
just installed it and tried writing:

  let rec sum n =
    if n < 1 then 0 else n + sum(n-1);;

  print_int(sum 1000000);;

and all I got was:

  Stack overflow during evaluation (looping recursion?).

So unless I've missed something, it doesn't seem to support tail-recursion,
in which case functional programmers aren't going to be happy at all...

Regards,

Brian.