Jeff wrote: >How are we going to get people to write recursive subroutines if we have >a factorial operator? :) > [snip]
sub offTopic
{
Have you seen Arc's factorial? The "short way" is really weird:
(rec zero 1 * 1-)
But then, the long way is still a bit odd to me, a non-LISPer:
(rfn fact (x) (if (zero x) 1 (* x (fact (1- x)))))
}
-Rob
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