Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 6/16/05, Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> So, I was about to write the following test for Pugs:
>>
>> sub factorial (Int $n) {
>> my sub factn (Int $acc, $i) {
>> return $acc if $i > $n;
>> factn( $acc * $i, $i+1);
>> }
>> factn(1, 1);
>> }
>>
>> When I thought to check the apocalypses and exegeses and, what do you know, I
>> couldn't find any evidence that nested named functions like this were legal.
>>
>> So, are they legal?
>
> Yep. And they work just as if you had used an anonymous sub there--it
> closes over lexicals and everything.
I should bloody well hope so too.
