It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
On 06/08/16 06:19 AM, Tim Hill wrote:
A more interesting question .. why do you need this? And, for your
need, have you explored other ways to solve the problem within the
existing Lua language?
I've used recursive pseudo-anonymous functions before. _SELF would make
them easier to use.
f((function()
local function inside_anonymous(args, I, should, take)
end
return inside_anonymous
end)())
You just need a Y-combinator:
function Y(f)
local function g(...) return f(g,...) end
return g
end
print(Y(function(rec, x)
if x < 2 then
return 1
else
return x * rec(x-1)
end
end)(5))
That will allow you to call an anonymous function recurively from within
the anonymous function. No need for _SELF in this case.
-spc (Now, about that _SUPER ... )