Re: [stack] language hierarchy

William Tanksley, Jr scripsit:

> > How about "self" as a call to its enclosing context?
> 
> It won't work for dynamic definitions, because there's no distinct
> concept of "enclosing context". All you know is that you're inside a
> quotation that's inside another quotation; you can't look ahead to see
> which enclosure is the one being defined and/or executed. There are
> several solutions:

[snippage]

4.  Fall back on the Y combinator, or its eager equivalent Z.

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