let me try this again. i was joking around.
the recursion occured because:
<<
this was funny: while substituting
"tot(l," for "(the number of lines in "
i pasted INSIDE function tot.
HyperCard crashed. the mac crashed.
can anyone identify the "too much recursion&q
th this word" -- which I
think is what you had originally.
> this was funny: while substituting
> "tot(l," for "(the number of lines in "
> i pasted INSIDE function tot.
> HyperCard crashed. the mac crashed.
>
> can anyone identify the "too much r
--- "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> erik hansen wrote:
>
> > put tot(it,l) into tot
> > shorter
> > put (the number of lines in it) into tot
> > clearer
> >
> > only thing is, nobody else does this.
> > maybe clearer
erik hansen wrote:
> put tot(it,l) into tot
> shorter
> put (the number of lines in it) into tot
> clearer
>
> only thing is, nobody else does this.
> maybe clearer is better than shorter?
Depends. In this case, the clearer method takes less time to execute
too, so it'
have to admit that THE functions read better with
"the" in front. esp. if i hope to use any
handlers for teaching programming.
while converting all functions in HC for MC
conversion. i came upon and expanded this
handler:
function tot it,what
if what is empty
then return (the
