need help regarding compilation

[fidlee]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> fidlee wrote:
> >>Try this:
> >>
> >>def fac(x):
> >> if x<=1:return 1
> >> return x*fac(x-1)
> >
> >
> > I am still getting an error in compilation. Would be really thankful if
> > someone could tell me as to what is going wrong.
>
> Try running the compiler under Java 1.4, or just run the class in the
> jython interpreter without compiling it first. For simple examples like
> this you don't need to compile, just run it with
>    jython factor.py
>
> Kent

Thanks. i noticed that it runs. But why is it throwing a compilation
error in my case here?