return when desugaring to closures

[Mark S. Miller]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Peter Michaux <petermichaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> As it stands, I always write the following in ES3
>
> var f = function() {};
>
> and now that arguments.callee is on the chopping block, I've started
> writing recursion as the painful contortion below
>
> var f = (function() {
>  var callee = function() { callee(); };
>  return callee;
> })();

I don't get it. Why not write

   var f = function() { f(); };

?


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