programming challenge (silly)
Rick Schubert
rns at se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com
Tue Mar 21 06:06:04 AEST 1989
In article <LIMES.89Mar15203439 at ouroborous.wseng.sun.com> limes at wseng.sun.com (Greg Limes) writes:
>In article <4412 at ingr.com> crossgl at ingr.com (Gordon Cross) writes:
> The example above fails to yield the correct answer if invoked
> with arguments on the command line whereas the original program did...
>Perhaps it is time to ask, since c415-23 at alberta did not specify.
> *** Can we assume no parameters? ***
Please note that the first argument to `main' may have the value 0 !
(That's the integer 0, not 0 factorial).
A value of 0 indicates that the program name is not available. This
is allowed by the soon-to-be ANSI Standard.
-- Rick Schubert (rns at se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)
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