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So you simply use the Y combinator [perl.org]. :-)
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I had thought of that when I was writing this, but I confess that I never really understood why people were so hot and bothered about the Y combinator. There's a point when complexity overrides functionality. That being said, it may simply be a case of my being dense, but an awful lot of smart people seem to struggle with this :)
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Complexity of what? The Y combinator is easy to use: you return the recursive closure from another closure; the first argument of the outer closure can be used in the inner closure to return. That’s it.
The difficulty is in deriving the exact form of the combinator (which, of course, is a bit of brain-melt, which is why it’s become a sort of sport), not in using it.
Re:See? (Score:1)
Err, the first argument of the outer closure can be used in the inner closure to recurse.
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