Re: Self reference for Closures

I feel like I'm missing some inside joke here.
That code is definitely ugly Java code - but why is it amusing? And how does it relate to this thread? Can someone please enlighten me?

Ishaaq

2009/3/21 Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Ricky Clarkson
<ricky.clarkson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I find it quite amusing that:

Y do you find that amusing?

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Miles

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On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Ishaaq Chandy wrote:
> I feel like I'm missing some inside joke here.
> That code is definitely ugly Java code - but why is it amusing? And how does
> it relate to this thread? Can someone please enlighten me?

Jorge showed an encoding in Scala of the Y combinator,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_combinator

Maybe I misread Ricky's post but he seemed to be implying that the
Java he posted was a simpler alternative ... which it only would be if
you completely missed the point of Jorge's.

Hmm ... it wasn't a very funny joke in the first place ... now it's
completely dead ;-)

Cheers,

Miles