Recursive function won't compile

[bc1891]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

def RecursiveFact(n):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact(n-1)
else:
return 1

fact = RecursiveFact(31)
print fact

fact = "End of program"
print fact


.......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

 

[dj3vande]

(Subject: Recursive function won't compile)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

def RecursiveFact(n):

......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

Possibly because it gives the right answer in a different language than
it fails to compile in?


dave

 

[ajaksu]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

def RecursiveFact(n):
    if(n>1):
        return n*RecursiveFact(n-1)
    else:
        return 1

fact = RecursiveFact(31)
print fact

The output is 8222838654177922817725562880000000 and is correct. But
the "#include"s tell me you're a bit confused. Have you tried running
"python yourscript.py" (where "yourscript.py" is the filename you
saved the above program to)?

HTH,
Daniel

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

def RecursiveFact(n):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact(n-1)
else:
return 1

fact = RecursiveFact(31)
print fact

fact = "End of program"
print fact


......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that chimera?

Diez

 

[George Sakkis]

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Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that chimera?

Diez

Seems like a bad belated April Fool's day joke to me.

George

 

[Keith Thompson]

Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that
chimera?

What do you mean? Aren't these:

#include <stdio.h.
#include <stdlib.h>

perfectly valid comments in Python?

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