Closures without Closures; Currying without Currying

posted by  varson (7)  13 months ago (weblogs.asp.net)

Last installment, we found we could write a factorial function with a function call in the recursive branch, but not a recursive call. This ‘nearly recursive’ style allows us to write factorial without using its name. We just assume we have a free-variable delegate to some function that performs the rest of the computation. At initialization time, set the delegate to refer to the function itself. Thus, replace recursion with a call through a free variable. Just anoth