(set! age (+ age 1)) in Off Topic

ID:75113
 
Jul 1 2009, 8:39 am
Keywords: birthday, ruinous
Well, I'm 20, officially, as of about 1 hour and 8 minutes ago. I am no longer a teenager. I've nearly finished my degree. I have no more excuses.

Time to actually write a goddamned game.
#1 Jul 1 2009, 8:53 am
*tempts Jp with sky-diving or something more entertaining than developing his game*
#2 Jul 1 2009, 10:17 am
Lisp or a dialect thereof (Scheme, maybe)? We don't take to kindly to your type around here.
#3 Jul 1 2009, 12:16 pm
Popisfizzy wrote:
Lisp or a dialect thereof (Scheme, maybe)? We don't take to kindly to your type around here.

He's not quote prefixing age to be a symbol, so I assume it's Scheme and not Lisp.
#4 Jul 1 2009, 1:16 pm
Cool, you've "score"-ed an age.

Get it?
#5 Jul 1 2009, 8:28 pm
Stephen is correct, it's Scheme.

And you're a bad man, Stephen. >:(
#6 Jul 1 2009, 8:54 pm
Scheme looks like some kind of bastardised language from hell...

Anyway, Happy Birthday! I thought you were older than I am, score. I'd buy you a beer, but South Australia is icky. ;)
#7 Jul 1 2009, 9:22 pm
That's alright, Tib, I don't drink. :P

Scheme is a functional language - it's based on lambda calculus. So It's a little strange for someone who grew up with BASIC and DM and C, but interesting.

There isn't really iteration, as such - you do it via recursion:

(define factorial n
(define fact_r m r
(if (< n 2)
r
(fact_r (- m 1) (* r m))
)
)
(fact_r n 1)
)

(That might not be actual valid Scheme - it's been a while since I've actually written code in it and compiled it, etc. etc. But the basic algorithm is correct)
#8 Jul 2 2009, 7:27 am
Well, I think I'll stick to age++ thank you, very much.

And "don't drink"!? Don't worry! We'll soon fix that! =D