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[–] PoolloverNathan 1 points 8 months ago

Haskell lets you infinitely recurse while still completing in finite time, and there's even a function (fix) for that. Doing e.g. fix (+ 2) would be an infinite loop if evaluated, yes, but fix (2 :) would give you a useful value that's an infinite stream of 2s. (it's also useful for other things too)