On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 10:39, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]

> the performance aspect, function
> attributes provide this functionality, but there's a significant
> problem with using them because you can't access them other than by
> referencing the *name* of the function being defined.
> [...]
>
> It would be nice to have a better way to reference function attributes
> from within a function. (This would also help write recursive
> functions that could be safely renamed, but I'm not sure many people
> would necessarily think that's a good thing ;-))
>


Now, yes, being able to reference a function from inside itself
is a feature I had missed over the years.



>
> Paul
>
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