Re: Fragile Recursion?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

GrayFace <sergroj@mail.ru> writes:
> do...end has nothing to do with a closure. A closure is an 'instance'
> of function, thus it's created once in any of your examples. In the
> first case it doesn't contain any upvalues in Lua 5.1, while it does
> in 5.2.

It contains an upvalue in both 5.1 and 5.2:  the recursive reference
to the local (in the file) definition of "fact".

-mjiles

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