[ZPT] METAL recursion broken by design or accident?

[Shane Hathaway]

Shawn Murphy wrote:
> Can anybody tell me whether METAL recursion is broken by design -- that
> is -- was deemed not to be a requirement or deemed to be a problem for
> some reason, and hence not supported.  The separation of TAL and METAL
> namespaces seems to be at the architectural heart of METAL not being
> able to support recursion.

Recursion in what sense?  I have some sense of what you're saying, but a 
concrete example would help a lot.

Shane