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Rust 0.8 released

Rust 0.8 released

Posted Sep 28, 2013 5:17 UTC (Sat) by ofranja (subscriber, #11084)
In reply to: Rust 0.8 released by ncm
Parent article: Rust 0.8 released

"fn" is "fun" enconded in 2010's slang.


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Rust 0.8 released

Posted Sep 28, 2013 7:03 UTC (Sat) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

In ML, fn declares an anonymous function, which can be thought of as a simple macro expansion (and so cannot call itself). fun is the 'fixed point constructor' or in non-pointy-eared terms, a way to construct a recursive function.

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