From: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/11
Date: 1996-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9107.imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5140ec$g9b@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
In article <5140ec$g9b@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>, ncohen@watson.ibm.com wrote:
|> > factorial x = x, if x<3
|> > = x*factorial(x-1), otherwise
|
|Well, there certainly is something Orwellian about asserting that 0! = 0.
OK, clever clogs. :-)
> factorial 0 = 1
> factorial (n+1) = n+1, if n<2
> = (n+1)*factorial n, otherwise
So I've demonstrated pattern matching now as well.
|> This whole article is an Orwell program, because lines not starting with ">"
|> are comments.
|
|Until it gets quoted in another article! :-)
Says who? :-)
Ian Collier - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - WWW Home Page:
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-06 0:00 Language wars (6th September) Roy Gardiner
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Solomon Taibi
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Frank Derichsweiler
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Rony.Flatscher
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Roy Gardiner
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ian Collier
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Ian Collier [this message]
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Daniel P Hudson
[not found] ` <511qn6$407i@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
1996-09-10 0:00 ` David Whiteman
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