On: Python: Overlooked core functionalities

[capableweb]

Is there something that isn't "self-recursion"?

[Jtsummers → capableweb]

Mutual recursion. Horrible example, don’t use this:

  even 0 = true
  even n = not (odd n-1)
  odd 0 = false
  odd n = not (even n-1)

[bewaretheirs → Jtsummers]

That should be

  even 0 = true
  even n = odd n-1

  odd 0 = false
  odd n = even n-1

I fed a C version of this (with unsigned n to keep the nasal daemons at bay) to clang and observed that it somehow manages to see through the mutual recursion, generating code that doesn't recurse or loop.

[Jtsummers → bewaretheirs]

You are correct, I don't know why I put the nots in there. Either way, demonstrates mutual recursion.