On Jul 17, 2012 1:00 PM, "angel" <andrey.gelman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.