On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 01:09:09PM -0400, Kevin Cox wrote: > 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.
We certainly can't use 'this', because it will break lambda functions declared inside class methods. So 'self' seems like a reasonable alternative. But this requires introducing a new keyword, which means there's the likelihood of breaking existing code that happens to use an identifier called 'self'. It's a good idea, though. It will strengthen D's support for functional style code. T -- Let's eat some disquits while we format the biskettes.