Anonymous recursion in 6 lines of Javascript

Posted by arnemart on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:06PM
from the am.aurlien.net dept.

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Re:Anonymous recursion in 6 lines of Javascript by lhorie on Friday January 21, 2011 @01:52PM (#2128406)

Seems like a somewhat convoluted way of doing this:

  alert(function rec(i) {
    return i === 0 ? 1 : i * rec(i - 1);
  }(4));//24
  alert(typeof rec);//undefined

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