Re: INCEST

Posted in 1998

"Jay Andrew Allen" — 26 Jan 1998 10:58:16 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

-----Original Message----- From: Arvin Meyer <a@m.com> To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu <informix-list@rmy.emory.edu> Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 10:48 PM Subject: Re: INCEST |Tim Mills-Groninger wrote in message <34CB8D6D.2256@earthlink.net>... | |>On a tertiary topic, has anyone else ever noticed the reference to |>"recursive" in the SPSS documentation. It says "see Loop." Under Loop |>it says "See recursive" | | |Seems like they have a sense of humor don't they? But that is an accurate |definition of recursive, now isn't it? Actually, no, that's an accurate definition of an infinite loop - i.e., what you get when you define a recursive procedure without a valid base case. Nitpickingly yours, -J-