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0 pointstome9y ago0 comments

> does Haskell even have a stack?

Yes

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While this is true, the contents of the STG stack aren't necessarily obviously related to the conceptual "call stack", right?

tomeOP9y ago

Well it's case that pushes onto the stack rather than (syntactic) function call but if you're willing to be generous with what you consider "call" then, yes, they're related.

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0 pointstome9y ago0 comments

> does Haskell even have a stack?

Yes

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wyager9y ago

While this is true, the contents of the STG stack aren't necessarily obviously related to the conceptual "call stack", right?

tomeOP9y ago

Well it's case that pushes onto the stack rather than (syntactic) function call but if you're willing to be generous with what you consider "call" then, yes, they're related.

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