[Coco] Peeks, Pokes, Execs on-line

[Alex Kritikos]

Don't fear the nested parenthetical:
(define (factorial x) (if (<= x 1) 1 (* x (factorial (- x 1)))))

Apologies to any actual lisp geeks out there.
- Alex

On 10/11/05, Frederick D Provoncha <elderpav at juno.com> wrote:

>

> > On Monday 10 October 2005 17:21, Ward Griffiths wrote:

> > >On 10/10/2005 03:35 pm, Arthur Flexser wrote:

> > >> I believe that it was a product of Microcom Software, a couple of

> > >> Indian (Asian, not native American) fellows (father/son??) located

> > >> (had a store, I think) in upstate New York, the same company that

> sold

> > >> Word Power 3 and other software. Nice folks. (I know, three

> > >> parenthetical phrases in the same sentence is a bit much.)

> > >

> > >At least you didn't nest them, as I've been known to do.

> >

> > Me too, and thats considered to be "poor form" in some circles. :)

> >

> > --

> > Cheers, Gene

>

> I entered a micro-short-story contest a few years ago and they gave extra

> credit for nested parentheticals. It takes real skill and is not very

> easy to come up with a good one (unless of course you're born with innate

> ability (which I am not, evidently, since this one isn't very good)). And

> no, my entry didn't include one, but it did contain a simple

> parenthetical. :-)

>

> Fred Provoncha

> Stansbury Park, UT

>

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