On 6/16/05, Piers Cawley <pdcawley@[...].uk>  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.

Luke