Re: Fragile Recursion?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes, aware that "do .. end" isnt
> directly related to closures, it was of course designed to make the
> local variable private to the closure so that the recursion was no
> longer fragile.
>
> I still think there might be some value in a distinguished variable
> that held the "current" function so that at least directly recursive
> functions could be written in a more robust manner.

I'm not sure how that's really going to make things "more robust" --
there's nothing particularly "fragile" about the current system...

-miles

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