agreed ... between `self` and `callee` probably `self` is better. Anyone
with a different/new idea?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Claude Pache <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Alternative name for `function.callee`:  I find that `function.self`
> sounds
> > better in case of recursive call (and probably in other cases as well).
>
> Agreed that "callee", while technically accurate, is a clumsy word and
> something like "self" sounds better.  "function.self", in particular,
> seems to communicate the right semantic, and implies that you're
> receiving a function .
>
> It doesn't feel... apt, I think, to bring the caller/callee
> relationship to mind when you're not trying to deal with that
> relationship; all you're trying to do is recurse on yourself, in the
> case where you don't have a name to refer to yourself with.  The fact
> that you're running because someone else called you is irrelevant to
> this dynamic.
>
> ~TJ
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