Re: [q-lang-users] Q Question

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Gregg" <lg...@ac...>
To: <q-l...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: [q-lang-users] Q Question


> People:
> 
> I have downloaded Q, and am trying the following, using Qpad, but I get 
> an error:
> 
> ==> fac N = N*fac (N - 1) if N>0;
> ! Syntax error
>  >>> fac N = N*fac (N - 1) if N>0;
>                                            ^
> I copied this from the qdoc.pdf.   This occurs using the interpreter, 
> but I imagine it would be the same with the compiler.
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry Gregg

Hi Larry,

I did a cut-n-paste of the offending line and my Qpad (ver 5.5)
session accepted it w/o an error report. To finish the definition 
you'll need to expand fac to;

fac 0 = 1;
fac N = N*fac (N - 1) if N>0;

Could the problem w/ your session be on the previous line?

Regards,

Walt