recursive type
A data type which contains itself. The commonest example is the list type, in
Haskell:
data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a)
which says a list of a's is either an empty list or a cons cell containing
an 'a' (the "head" of the list) and another list
(the "tail").
Recursion is not allowed in Miranda or Haskell synonym types, so the following
Haskell types are illegal:
type Bad = (Int, Bad)
type Evil = Bool -> Evil
whereas the seeminly equivalent algebraic data types are acceptable:
data Good = Pair Int Good
data Fine = Fun (Bool->Fine)
Nearby terms:
recursive descent parser « Recursive Functional
Algorithmic Language « Recursive Macro Actuated
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