[#3109] Is divmod dangerous? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...>

14 messages 2000/06/06

[#3149] Retrieving the hostname and port in net/http — Roland Jesse <jesse@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2000/06/07

[#3222] Ruby coding standard? — Robert Feldt <feldt@...>

16 messages 2000/06/09

[#3277] Re: BUG or something? — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> |I am new to Ruby and this brings up a question I have had

17 messages 2000/06/12
[#3281] Re: BUG or something? — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2000/06/12

Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

[#3296] RE: about documentation — Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@...>

> I want to contribute to the ruby project in my spare time.

15 messages 2000/06/12

[#3407] Waffling between Python and Ruby — "Warren Postma" <embed@...>

I was looking at the Ruby editor/IDE for windows and was disappointed with

19 messages 2000/06/14

[#3410] Exercice: Translate into Ruby :-) — Jilani Khaldi <jilanik@...>

Hi All,

17 messages 2000/06/14

[#3415] Re: Waffling between Python and Ruby — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

>Static typing..., hmm,...

11 messages 2000/06/14

[#3453] Re: Static Typing( Was: Waffling between Python and Ruby) — Andrew Hunt <andy@...>

32 messages 2000/06/16

[#3516] Deep copy? — Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>

Given that I cannot overload =, how should I go about ensuring a deep

20 messages 2000/06/19

[#3694] Why it's quiet — hal9000@...

We are all busy learning the new language

26 messages 2000/06/29
[#3703] Re: Why it's quiet — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...> 2000/06/30

Hi,

[#3705] Re: Why it's quiet — matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 2000/06/30

Hi,

[ruby-talk:03602] Re: Another small quiz

From: "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@...>
Date: 2000-06-22 00:25:43 UTC
List: ruby-talk #3602


>From: gotoken@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp (GOTO Kentaro)
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp
>To: ruby-talk@netlab.co.jp (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: [ruby-talk:03599] Re: Another small quiz
>Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:40:42 +0900 (JST)
>
>Hi,
>
>In message "[ruby-talk:03597] Re: Another small quiz"
>     on 00/06/21, "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@hotmail.com> writes:
> >I prefer:
> >def fact(n)
> >	if n < 0
> >		raise "argument negative"
> >	end
> >	fact = 1
> >	for i in 2..n
> >		fact *= i
> >	end
> >	fact
> >end
>
>The avobe fails fact(0) and fact(1) ;-)

Really?
According to definition: fact(0) is 1.
fact(1) is 1*1, also 1.
Both are produced by the above :-)
Have you tried it?

Dat

>
>def fact(n)
>         if n > 1
>                 fact = 1
>                 for i in 2..n
>                         fact *= i
>                 end
>                 fact
>         elsif n >= 0
>                 1
>         else
>                 raise ArgumentError, "argument negative (#{n})"
>         end
>end
>
>-- Gotoken
>

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