Can an anonymous go function call itself?

I'm just running through the Tour of Go, and got to the tree walker exercise. Its obvious recursion, but closing the channel is a special case after the final pop off the call stack. Anyway, I ended up implementing it thusly:

// Walk walks the tree t sending all values
// from the tree to the channel ch.
func Walk(t *tree.Tree, ch chan int) {
    var walker func(t *tree.Tree, ch chan int)
    walker = func(t *tree.Tree, ch chan int) {
        if (t.Left != nil) {
            walker(t.Left, ch)
        }
        ch <- t.Value
        if (t.Right != nil) {
            walker(t.Right, ch)
        }
    }
    walker(t, ch)
    close(ch)
}

So far my impression of go is that they prefer to avoid saying things if they can, so the declaration of var walker before the definition seems off. Perhaps I missed some detail that would allow a function to refer to itself without the declaration? It would be a little nicer if it could be:

// Walk walks the tree t sending all values
// from the tree to the channel ch.
func Walk(t *tree.Tree, ch chan int) {
    func(t *tree.Tree, ch chan int) {
        if (t.Left != nil) {
            __me__(t.Left, ch)
        }
        ch <- t.Value
        if (t.Right != nil) {
            __me__(t.Right, ch)
        }
    }(t, ch)
    close(ch)
}

This is a simple trivia question, but I'm new enough to the language that I am not finding the answer...