Pretending you are binding values instead of assignment means you can pretend to...

peteretep · on July 16, 2011

I say I say I say...

  use strict; use warnings; use signatures;

  sub ( $builder ) {
	return sub ( $n ) {
        return $builder->($builder)->($n);
    };
  }->(
	sub ( $recurse ) {
		return sub ( $n ) {
            if (0 == $n) {
                return 1;
            } else {
				return $n * $recurse->($recurse)->($n - 1);
        	}
        };
    }
  )->(5);

btilly · on July 16, 2011

Cute. But I wrote the email under discussion in 2005, and the first version of signatures was not released until 2008.

I still think that my email was accurate as of 2005.