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From: imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
Subject: Re: Language wars (6th September)
Date: 1996/09/11
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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? :-)

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