On Jul 17, 2012 1:00 PM, "angel" <andrey.gel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I propose to introduce a reference to the current function, much like 'this' in a class method. Call it 'self' or 'thisFunc', or whatever ... > What might this be good for ? > For implementing recursion in a lambda function. > Writing in functional style, one creates many functions, and looking for reasonable names for these functions becomes unnecessarily painful.
I like that idea, although I don't know about the name. We also might want more features such as access to syntacticly nested functions.