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From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
To: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Parameters
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:45:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlug209z.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200802041629.19828.caslav.ilic@gmx.net

Quoth Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic@gmx.net>:
>> [: Sebastian Tennant :]
>> Why does the second procedure fail regardless of how it is called?
>
> 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.
>
>   (+ (apply add (cdr l)) (car l))

Indeed.

Many thanks to all.






  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-04 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 13:51 Parameters Sebastian Tennant
2008-02-04 14:28 ` Parameters Ludovic Courtès
2008-02-04 15:05   ` Parameters Sebastian Tennant
2008-02-04 15:29     ` Parameters Chusslove Illich
2008-02-04 15:45       ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
2008-02-04 15:47     ` Parameters Ludovic Courtès
2008-02-04 17:22       ` Parameters Sebastian Tennant

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