The use of the Y combinator (as opposed to the built-in forms of recursion) seems to be hacking around the ability for Ruby methods to be redefined more than anything?
Robby On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > ...provide a mis-feature that the language thoughtfully left out: > > http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/ruby/ycombinator.shtml > > (The bit about "lexical" scoping in Ruby is also neat. It says that > deep down, Ruby really is the same as JavaScript and Python.) > > Shriram > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
