"Updating" lambda functions

[Elaine Jackson]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message
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| I am curious if there is any reason other that habit carried over from
| other languages to not write the above as
|
| def fu(x): return x
| def fu(x): return fu(x) + 17
| etc

In my interpreter (IDLE 1.0 on Windows 98) it causes an infinite regress.