<https://github.com/arrow-kt/arrow/issues/1347>

# arrow-contributors

[pakoito]

https://github.com/arrow-kt/arrow/issues/1347

[kartoffelsup]

Sorry for the stupid question:

fun <E, A> Kind<F, A>.withRetry(err: E, AE: ApplicativeError<F, E>, retries: Int) =
  if (retries == 0) AE.raiseError(err)
  else AE. run { this.handleErrorWith { withRetry(it,AE, retries - 1) } }

Wouldn't that just call itself until 0 without any other possible outcome?

[pakoito]

that withRetry call is inside a lambda that’s called lazily

[pakoito]

it won’t be called unless this fails

[pakoito]

because IO is a lazy, suspended datatype

[pakoito]

for eager datatypes…yeah it may stackoverflow if they’re unrecoverable errors and retries is large enough