[erlang-questions] re cursive fun()

[Richard Carlsson]

deepblue_other wrote:
> hello
> I have this going on
> 
> 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. 

You have to make it keep "itself" around as an additional parameter,
so that you can first create it and then hand it the self-reference:

FunVar =
   fun(Myself) ->
       ...
       Myself(Myself)
    end

then call it like this:

FunVar(FunVar).

If you want the result to be a function of arity 0,
as in your example, then replace the last line with

FinalFunVar = fun () -> FunVar(FunVar) end

    /Richard

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