Re: LOGO-L> http://www.ionet.net/~timtroyr/funhouse/beer.html#unique

[Michael Tempel <michaelt@media.mit.edu>]

At 8:23 AM -0500 3/23/98, Rena Schklowsky wrote:
[snip]

>However, your solution does not take into consideration the singular case (1
>bottle of beer). Wouldn't you have to include the statement
>if :how-many = 1 [print sentence [1 bottle of beer on the wall]
>print sentence [1 bottle of beer]
>print [take one down, pass it around,]
>print sentence [1 bottle of beer on the wall]]
>or something like that (I guess we can work on that in Colorado this summer).
>

Sure.  The reason I didn't do it in the posting was because taking that
case into account adds a bunch of code that makes the overall program less
clear.  For a more refined program that (and probably some other little
things) should be taken care of.

Yes, is a good exercise for Colorado, or your students at PS 9.

-Michael

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