From: oinkoink+unet@... (Bret Jolly)
Date: 2002-09-05T11:46:12+09:00
Subject: Re: option remember

"Pit Capitain" <pit@capitain.de> wrote in message news:<3D768F79.32454.1105AB32@localhost>...

> Hi Bret,

> in the memoize docs it says that only functions not depending on 
> internal state can be memoized, in other words the function result 
> should only depend on the function arguments. Clearly

>   15.choose 7

> is different from

>   10.choose 7

> although the arg list is the same.

[good example of a fix deleted]

I understand now.  Thanks!  I was wondering about the memoize package
itself, but as the pragmatic programmers would say, "select isn't broken".

          Regards, Bret

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