What is open recursion? Is it specific to OOP?
(I came across this term in this tweet by Daniel Spiewak.)
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What is open recursion? Is it specific to OOP?
(I came across this term in this tweet by Daniel Spiewak.)
just copying http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/ralf.hinze/talks/Open.pdf:
“Open recursion Another handy feature offered by most languages with objects and classes is the ability for one method body to invoke another method of the same object via a special variable called self or, in some langauges, this. The special behavior of self is that it is late-bound, allowing a method defined in one class to invoke another method that is defined later, in some subclass of the first. “