On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 09:58, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > sub odd($n);
> >
> > first to declare the function. This gets you a warning about redefining
> > odd, but that's ignorable.
>
> Odd... could have sworn I tried that. And I was under the impression
> that official format for this was C<< sub od
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Heh. I tried predeclaring using the apocalypse style:
>
>sub odd($n) {...}
>sub even($n) {...}
>
> And that complained about the yadda, even though the functions were
> then fully defined.
At the time I interpreted this as a stub definition, not
Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:46, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
>> Here's the classic example of mutual recursion:
>>
>> sub even ($n) {
>> given $n {
>> when 0 { return 1 };
>> default { odd($n-1) };
>> }
>> }
>>
>> sub odd ($n) {
>>
"Sean O'Rourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
>> So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but
>> at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile
>> successfully.
>
> It should do about this, since you're calli
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:46, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Here's the classic example of mutual recursion:
>
> sub even ($n) {
> given $n {
> when 0 { return 1 };
> default { odd($n-1) };
> }
> }
>
> sub odd ($n) {
> given $n {
> when 0 { return }
> default {
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
> So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but
> at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile
> successfully.
It should do about this, since you're calling it with parens, but for the
moment, you need to dec
