Re: cs-520 Problem Set 8

From: Assaf Kfoury (kfoury@cs.bu.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 06 2004 - 23:07:09 EST 

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Your solution can use side-effects. I do not know if there is a solution
without side-effects. My guess is that it is not possible, and if you
think otherwise, I will be very much interested to see what you produce.

Assaf

Dan Benjamin wrote:

>I just logged in to ask the exact same question when I received this
>e-mail. Essentially, I think it would be helpful if we had some sort of
>guideline on how dissimilar our solution must be from Pierce's.
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>Dan
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>On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Yarom Gabay wrote:
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>>Prof. Kfoury,
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>>A question concerning problem-1 (ex 18.13.1) on problem set 8. I am trying to think what's concidered a different solution. I have another solution but it uses side effects as well (also extends the internal representation) , is that the same solution? Do we suppose to find a solution with no side effects?
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>>Thank you,
>>Yarom.
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