--- Kevin Toppenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Continuing...
To say that we want functions to treated as values seems a different
point than saying that to accomplish this would require the converse
situation of values being treated the same as functions (i.e.
requiring an entry in the
Greg,
I'm not following you. I'll probably just demonstrate my lack of
computer science, but what the heck--I'm going to think out loud as I
read this e-mail:
On 11/27/05, Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A basic feature of functional languages is that functions are values,
just like
A basic feature of functional languages is that functions are values,
just like numbers and strings, and they, too, can be returned from
other functions. This is not possible in MUMPS (except in a limited way
via indirection), so to illustrate the idea, it is necessary to invent
some syntax. In
- Original Message -
From: Greg Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Hardhats hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:55 AM
Subject: [Hardhats-members] Lambda abstration in MUMPS
S FACT = LAMBDA(N) {$S(N=0:1,1:$$FACT(N-1)) }
make that:
S FACT = LAMBDA
--- Maury Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
make that:
Q $$FACT(N-1)*N
Right.
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