had same thought ... that wouldn't need much explanation neither. +1 here

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Domenic Denicola <[email protected]> wrote:

>  function.current?
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> From: Andrea Giammarchi <[email protected]>
> Sent: ‎2015-‎02-‎26 18:56
> To: Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]>
> Cc: es-discuss <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Proposal: Additional Meta Properties for ES7
>
>  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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