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Re: Parameters
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Parameters |
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Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:45:28 +0200 |
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Quoth Chusslove Illich <address@hidden>:
>> [: Sebastian Tennant :]
>> Why does the second procedure fail regardless of how it is called?
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> Because the recursive call in it is of the first type, not corresponding to
> the base call.
Ah, of course...
> You would need to use apply, i.e.
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> (+ (apply add (cdr l)) (car l))
Indeed.
Many thanks to all.