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What is open recursion? Is it specific to OOP?
(I came across this term in this tweet by Daniel Spiewak.)
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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.
Open recursion allows to call another methods of object from within, through special variable like this or self. Highly active question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from spam and non-answer activity.
1 Answer. For explanation: Use of this pointer allows an object to call data and methods of itself whenever needed.
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. "
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