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The J language has something like that, a magical operator called $: which always refers to the innermost verb it is used at.

However, I don't like that, and don't think it would be a good idea for perl. I'd rather like something like (one form of) the let macro in scheme. The equivalent to this would be something like this in perl: the hypothetical let NAME { BODY } ARGS could be equivalent to do { my sub NAME { BODY }; NAME(ARGS); }, where you can call NAME in the BODY too. Except we'd need a different name instead of let.

Update: redo wouldn't help. That only works if you have tail recursion. Redo doesn't return.

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Re^3: recursive anonymous subroutines
by Daryn (Sexton) on Apr 06, 2006 at 21:08 UTC
    the whole point is not to name the beast. I like the idea of a $thingy :
    (sub {... $thingy->(...) ... )->(args);
    would suit me just fine. Oh well. I can live without it.

    Thanks again.
      It's been done.
      use Sub::Recursive; recursive { ... $REC->(...) ... }->(args)