Recursive function won't compile

[Keith Thompson]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:

>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>
>> def RecursiveFact(n):
>>     if(n>1):
>>         return n*RecursiveFact(n-1)
>>     else:
>>         return 1
>>
>> fact = RecursiveFact(31)
>> print fact
>>
>> fact = "End of program"
>> print fact
>>
>>
>> ......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?
>
> Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
> beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that
> chimera?

What do you mean?  Aren't these:

    #include <stdio.h.
    #include <stdlib.h>

perfectly valid comments in Python?

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