From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-03-22T08:36:05+09:00
Subject: Re: scope of assignments with lambda

Fearless Fool wrote in post #988575:
> This isn't a question -- it's just a comment that I find it awesome and
> only slightly mysterious that a lambda can reference the variable it is
> assigned to in its body,

How does recursion grab you?

def factorial(n)
   if n == 1
     1
   else
     n * factorial(n-1)
   end
end

puts factorial(3)

--output:--
6


You might want to ponder the difference between your example and a 
recursive method.

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