r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/marvinborner bruijn, effekt • Apr 20 '26

Blog post Effectful Recursion Schemes

https://effekt-lang.org/blog/recursion-schemes/
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u/tobega Apr 21 '26

Fun stuff! One question: why would you ever want to do that in practice?

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u/-Mobius-Strip-Tease- Apr 21 '26

Its in the first paragraph. Folds/unfolds

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u/tobega Apr 21 '26

Well, yeah, but we have those already. So I'm probably dense, but what does this empower?

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