Actually, that's worst. Most language we grew up with, and most languages I taught, had fact( someLargeNumber ) = 0 very fastly. (Which is harder to explain, but explainable) At least, throw on overflow is safe!
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>wrote: > That's probably colored by my background where most of the languages I > grew up with that shaped my experience gave you overflow exceptions > from fact( someLargeNumber ) but they calculated fact( > reasonableNumber ) very fast :) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
