reference to 'self' inside a function

[Rob T]

On Sunday, 23 September 2012 at 17:15:13 UTC, Ben Davis wrote:
> Here's another one that might work, and be less error-prone:
>
> mixin template Self() {
>   auto self = __traits(identifier, __traits(parent, {}));
> }
>
> void test() {
>   mixin Self;
>   writeln(self);
> }
>

OK, we've managed to get the calling function symbol name without 
re-specifying it. Now I wonder if we can perform mixin magic to 
execute a function recursively without re-specifying the function 
name?

Example recursive function

int Recurse(int a)
{
    if (a <= 1)
       return 1;
    else
    // can we replace explicit call to "Recurse"
    // with "self" using a mixin or some other means?
       return a * Recurse(a - 1);
}


We could try and get the function pointer, but that seems like 
the wrong approach. I'd rather get the function name, do some 
mixin magic with it to generate the compile time code that uses 
the function name directly. Can we mixin a mixin???

--rt