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.