Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Sa., 8 Sep. 2018 om 07:26 het Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> geskryf:

>> It would break everything, but I'd remove the top-level function keyword entirely, with the side effects. 2 more keystrokes for `=` in free functions, plus 4 for `self` in methods.
>
> The issue is with recursive functions. You can't do that simply with the "name = function()" syntax.

Oh, you can. "local function func(...)"  is syntactic sugar for

local func
func = function(...)

I'm sure this is in the manual, but don't have it open in my browser right now.