Which languages support *recursive* function literals / anonymous functions?

Question

It seems quite a few mainstream languages support function literals these days. They are also called anonymous functions, but I don\'t care if they have a name. The important th

Answer 1

I think this may not be exactly what you're looking for, but in Lisp 'labels' can be used to dynamically declare functions that can be called recursively.

(labels ((factorial (x) ;define name and params
    ; body of function addrec
    (if (= x 1)
      (return 1)
      (+ (factorial (- x 1))))) ;should not close out labels
  ;call factorial inside labels function
  (factorial 5)) ;this would return 15 from labels