Recursive functions in Lua 4

[Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@...>]

Hi. I have to maintain some Lua 4 code, and I have no idea how to make a 
local function call itself.
In the following code, I'd like to make G local to the function F. Is 
this possible?

function F()

   G = function(value)
       if value == 10 then
           return "stop"
       end
       return G(value + 1)
   end
  
   print( G(1) )
end

print( F(1) )
assert(not G, "G escaped to the global scope")