Re: Thought experiment: what would you remove from Lua

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Sam Pagenkopf once stated:
> The recursive definitions are something I didn't consider. If you were to
> enable recursion in local function assignments. it would be strange because
> it violates scoping rules. 

  Nope, not with the Y-combinator:

	local fact = Y(function(self,n)
	  if n == 0 then
	    return 1
	  else
	    return n * self(n - 1)
	  end
	end)
	
	print(fact(5))

  Now the trick is to define Y().

  -spc