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I thought mutually recursive functions were only used on mutually
inductive types.  Am I wrong?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Pierre Casteran wrote:

> The syntactic procedure used to check well-formedness of recursive
> definition may fail.
> Perhaps a more complex test would give a postive result (at which cost?).
> In the example you gave, you haven't truely mutually recursive functions,
> the it's best to define them one after one.
> In more complex examples, it can be necesary to give arguments for
> showing that your recursion is well founded.

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