Re: please help me!

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:33:32 -0700
Message-ID:
<f0g2or$1fr3$1@ihnp4.ucsd.edu>
Lew wrote:

spazzoman@mindless.com wrote:

im writing a javascript that will allow me to do the ackermann
fuction. it is titled a.java it looks like this:

If it is called "a.java" it is probably in Java, not Javascript. Java
and Javascript are different languages with unfortunately similar names.

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 public static int ackermann(int m, int n) {
   if (m == 0)
     return n+1;
   else if (m > 0 && n == 0)
     return ackermann(m-1, 1);
   else
     return ackermann(m-1, ackermann(m, n-1));
 }
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i get the error that says
a.java:1: class, interface, or enum expected
 public static int ackermann(int m, int n)
               ^


Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:

Your method needs to be inside a class declaration.


spazzoman@mindless.com wrote:

what does inside a class declaration mean


<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html>


I strongly recommend going through the tutorial starting at the
beginning, including writing and running a hello world application.

Patricia

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