Hi Alex, I just noticed that in the docs for the 'recur' function, there's also a fibonacci function where "(if (> 2 N)" should be changed into "(if (>= 2 N)". And the result of (fibonacci 22) should thus be 17711.
/Jon On 27. Oct, 2012, at 10:35, Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Jon, > >>> This is not a new "bug". I'm using "(if (> N 2)" since 30 years for such >>> simple benchmark purposes, so I didn't care to change. I don't remember >>> if I made this up by myself, of if I found it somewhere. >> >> I suggest you add a comment in misc/fibo.l that explains this, in case > > You are right. The more I think about it, the more I see that it is > quite confusing. And, as I wrote in my previous mail, it is against the > PicoLisp convention of starting indexes with '1'. > > So I now changed "misc/fibo.l" to use ">=" instead of ">". As far as the > benchmarks are concerned, it doesn't really matter, as they are always > relative. > > >> Then I suggest a few words in the docs that says "only in debug mode". >> (This may be the case for other functions in the docs also?) > > Good idea, thanks! I'll do that. > > Cheers, > - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
