[erlang-questions] re cursive fun()

[David Mercer]

On Tuesday, October 07, 2008, Hynek Vychodil wrote:

 

> Is there any problem write this think this way?

. . .

> For Example factorial:

> 

> Fact = begin F = fun(_, 0) -> 1; (Self, N) -> Self(Self, N-1)*N end,
fun(N) -> F(F, N) end end.

 

My only objection is that it pollutes the shell variable space with the
extra function F.  How about:

 

Fact = fun(N) -> F = fun(_, 0) -> 1; (Self, N) -> Self(Self, N-1)*N end,
F(F, N) end.

 

Cheers,

 

David

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