Once you are willing to move beyond "callee", there are a whole lot of available English words:
function.me function.here function.this (I kinda like it but I also don't believe it would be a good choice) function.target function.self (suggested by Claude) function.object (you are accessing the active function function) function.active function.recur function.home function.enclosing and no doubt many more... allen On Feb 26, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote: > function.current? > From: Andrea Giammarchi > Sent: 2015-02-26 18:56 > To: Tab Atkins Jr. > Cc: es-discuss > 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 > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
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