If you’ve used a parser library’s recursive parser, you have infinite calls right there. If it supplies a recursive-parser function, that function is a type-limited equivalent to fix, which performs the infinite call operation. Your Rust library most likely implements recursion using hidden mutability, but in Haskell, your parsers can remain infinitely-recursive while still referencing themselves and immutable.
Also, we get to ask people if they know what a monad is.
Imagine using a linked list as your default sequential container.
Rust iterators are lazy btw.
You can’t random-access an iterator and use it again later. Can Rust compute the value of calling a function an infinite number of times?
— former rustacean
it can compute how often I needed to compute the value of calling a function an infinite number of times.
println!("0");If you’ve used a parser library’s recursive parser, you have infinite calls right there. If it supplies a recursive-parser function, that function is a type-limited equivalent to
fix, which performs the infinite call operation. Your Rust library most likely implements recursion using hidden mutability, but in Haskell, your parsers can remain infinitely-recursive while still referencing themselves and immutable.Also, we get to ask people if they know what a monad is.
If your specific use case really needs random access to a list while lazy computing the elements just wrap them in
Lazyand put them in a vector.The return type of an infinitely recursive function / infinite loops is ⊥, a type that by definition has no values. (Known in rust as
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