Fei Chen wrote:
> ps. can someone give me an example of unavoidable loop? and under what
> general conditions when this happens?hi all,
Here is a simple example that I think requires looping,
(although I'd be thrilled to find out I'm wrong).
Given a sequence a[i], i=0,1,2,...,n, and some constant k,
with 0 < k < 1, compute the sequence
b[i] = k*a[i-1] + a[i], i=1,2,...,n
It may be impossible to state general conditions in S-Plus
for unavoidable loops, because "avoidance" often just
means doing the looping with compiled code
(often internal to S-Plus) from another language
such as C or Fortran.
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