Peter Michaux wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Mark S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> As it stands, I always write the following in ES3
>>>
>>> var f = function() {};
>>>
>>> and now that arguments.callee is on the chopping block, I've started
>>> writing recursion as the painful contortion below
>>>
>>> var f = (function() {
>>> var callee = function() { callee(); };
>>> return callee;
>>> })();
>> I don't get it. Why not write
>>
>> var f = function() { f(); };
>
> var f = function() {f();};
> var g = f;
> f = function(){alert('broke your recursion :)');};
> g();
/*const*/ var f = function() { f(); };
Then just treat /*const*/ variables as if they were 'const', until
at some point you no longer care about old versions of JScript and
can globally replace '/*const*/ var' -> 'const'.
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David-Sarah Hopwood
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