Re: Self-awareness of functions?

[Steve Litt <slitt@...>]

On Wednesday 29 December 2010 05:19:14 Dirk Laurie wrote:
 
> So let me rephrase the point in short sentences.
> 
> 1. The construction "function(x) ... end" defines an anonymous function.
> 2. "function foo(x)" instead of "foo=function(x)" is mere syntactic sugar.
>    You are actually doing the same thing.

Hi Dirk,

According to this page:

http://www.lua.org/pil/6.2.html

According to that page, there's a subtle difference between

foo=function(x)

and

function foo(x)

when it comes to declaring recursive functions. I'm not saying this has 
anything to do with your situation, I'm just pointing out that in certain 
situations they're not identical.

SteveT

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