[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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