How to recurse a closure in Go?

Question

Suppose I have a closure like

recur := func(){
    recur()
}

Compiler says:

undefined: recur

How can i implement it? Why is it happening?

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '15 at 06:00

As of December 2015 (go.1.5.1), there isn't any language feature providing it.

Possible workarounds:

var recur func()
recur = func(){
    recur()
}

//or

type recurF func(recurF)

recur := func(recur recurF) {
    recur(recur)
}

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