reference to 'self' inside a function

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 at 16:56:17 UTC, angel wrote:
> 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.

May I suggest the "recur" or "recursive" keyword?

auto factorials = map!(n => n ? n * recur(n-1) : 1)([1, 2, 
3]).array;
assert(factorials == [1, 2, 6]);

NMS