At 2:22 PM -0700 3/22/03, Bill Cadier wrote:

>  > Write a 'C' program without using any loop (if, for, while etc) to
>  > print numbers from 1 to 100 and 100 to 1;
>
>Here's an answer ... that I don't think breaks any of the rules
>
>int dispnum ( int num, int last )
>{
>printf("%d\n", num);
>return((num > last) ?
>     (num=(num < 100) ? dispnum(++num, ++last) : dispnum(num, num)) :
>     (num=(num > 1) ? dispnum (--num, --last) : 0 ));
>}
>
>void main()
>{
>dispnum(1, 0);
>}
>
>How's that? A little recursion but no (explicit) if's in there.
>Notice also the judicious absence of comments :-)

Very nice!  It runs beautifully on my Gypsy hp3000 and, of course, on
my Mac PowerBook (which I use as MPE's front end), under both Mac OS 9
and Mac OS X.  Just for kicks, I also ran it on Windows XP Professional
(under Virtual PC).

Do you play chess?  I'll bet you checkmate your opponents in a couple
of moves!

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