local functions revisited

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

Would it be possible to enable the syntax:

	local function myFunc(params)


I would like to use the ':' sugar for class methods:

	function MyClass:myFunc(params)


But private methods need to use the form:

	local privateFunc = function(params)


And I don't want to try and convince scripters to use two 
different forms, so my class methods end up:

	MyClass.myFunc = function(self, params)


which isn't *that* bad, and I'll admit this is all just personal 
preference from someone with a C background, but it would be 
nice to have a 'local function f()' to go with 'function f()'. I 
assume that there is some technical limitation involved, or this 
would have been done already.

Jason
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