Re: the necessity of Lisp's Objects?

"David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus)" <dformosa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:26:42 +0000, Jon Harrop <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote: 
>> Actually, I can't think of any other languages that support recursive
>> anonymous functions anyway: none of Lisp, Scheme, SML, OCaml, F# and
>> Haskell do AFAIK.
>
> You can do anonymous recusion in Lisp and Scheme via letrec.  Any
> language where you can implement the Y-combinator you can get
> anonymous recursion.

FTR:

One language I know that directly supports anonymous recursion (without
Y-combinator) is JavaScript:

var fib = function(i) {
  if (i == 0 || i == 1) return 1;
  return (arguments.callee.call(null,i-1) +
arguments.callee.call(null,i-2));
};

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