Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell maximum stack depth

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jonathan Cast wrote:

Or, to put it another way, the bugs Java's stack overflow is designed to catch are considered good style in Haskell.

I consider explicit recursion in Haskell as bad style. One should use higher order functions like 'map', 'fold', 'filter' and so on whereever possible. Even if one needs explicit recursion one should separate the traversal through a data structure from the particular operation applied to the elements.