[erlang-questions] re cursive fun()

[Richard Andrews]

> FunVar = 
>    fun() ->
>       ...
>       FunVar()
>    end.
> 
> so the compiler is complaining that FunVar is unbound at the place where its
> being used inside fun(); this makes sense, however Im wondering how to make
> this into a recursive function since there's no name to reference the
> function with. 


Maybe have the fun call a real (recursive) function.

eg.

F(A) ->
    ...
    F(B).

Caller(Data) ->
    ...
    FunVar = fun(A) -> F(A) end,
    ...
    foo:use_fun(FunVar, Data).

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  Rich


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