> On Aug 2, 2014, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, luigi scarso wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014, John Kitzmiller <k...@inradius.net> wrote:
>>> Here is Lua code that prints the first nine fibonacci numbers:
>>>
>>> local function fib(n)
>>> f={1,1}
>>> ...the Wiki entries, CLD, and tried Aditya's method from Stack Exchange; I
>>> am
>>> missing something.
>>>
>>
>> You have a *global* table f that collides with the internals of context
>> ...
>> local function fib(n)
>> local f={1,1}
>> ...
>
> This version recomputes all fibnocci numbers from scrach each time. Here
> is a memoized version:
>
> local fibs = {1, 1}
> local function fib(n)
> if fibs[n] == nil then
> print(">>>>", "Computing fib:" .. n)
> fibs[n] = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
> end
> ...
Thanks to you both! I missed the global/local conflict, and then learned a way
to avoid double computation; thanks again!
John
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