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: (1) Please sign your talk page submissions. (I have manually added a signature for you, which I think represents what you would have gotten if you had used the <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> wiki signature slug line.)
 
:: Thank you, forgot... --[[User:GordonBGood|GordonBGood]] ([[User talk:GordonBGood|talk]]) 03:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
: : Thank you, forgot...
 
: (2) On this site, any task which specifies implementation details instead of desired result(s) is going to be (or contain) a joke. See also the [[Rosetta_Code:Add_a_Task|add a task]] page which gives some recommendations centered around the issues of choosing tasks which are useful in a "compare across language" context. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 16:03, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 
: : Yes, I see your point; my issue arose because I actually need something like what I suggested as an additional requirement for one particular language (there may be others) and was frustrated that that particular language seems to be unable to do what I believe I require; whereas the required "fac" and "fib" examples are so trivial (as in a joke) that they can be implemented very easily in other ways not using a Y (or Z) combinator.
 
: : My purpose in the above sample code is not to specify implementation details, but merely to show that features required in order to accomplish my suggested result objective is possible for languages that don't have those features either built-in or available in a standard library. --[[User:GordonBGood|GordonBGood]] ([[User talk:GordonBGood|talk]]) 03:32, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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