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RE: Would-be hacker queries. (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Tue, 11 May 1999 17:24:13 GMT
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Original-From:
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Joel Shafer <joel@connect{ihatespam}.net>
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I'm afraid you are wrong. That is exactly what it does. The result of the
first replacement is dependent on the result of the second replacement
which is dependant on the result of the third replacement ...
It is exactly like the factorial example except the returned results are
concatenated instead of multiplied.
At 11:16 AM 5/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Joel Shafer -----
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> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:50:14 -0500
> From: Joel Shafer <joel@connect.net>
> Subject: RE: Would-be hacker queries.
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> Searching and replacing is a good example of recursion. Suppose that you
> are editing a document and want to replace every occurrence of the word
> "the" with the word "then". Here is one way that the program could handle it.
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> ----- End of forwarded message from Joel Shafer -----
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> This is iteration, not recursion. It can certainly be done recursively but
> this description isn't. It's iterative because we do not require the finding
> and changing of the n'th term to depend on the n-1'st term.
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| ----- Forwarded message from Joel Shafer ----- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:50:14 -0500 From: Joel Shafer <joel@connect.net> Subject: RE: Would-be hacker queries. Searching and replacing is a good example of recursion. Suppose that you are editing a (...) (26 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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