[tilly]

You can still do a Y combinator in JavaScript. In http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg02716.h... I not only show how to do it, but I show one way that someone reasonably could come up with the construct.

But I agree with you that Y combinators are not generally a good approach for working programmers because there are clearer ways of accomplishing the same thing. However I've heard that in some functional languages they can be very useful as a pattern to compile language constructs to.

[IsaacSchlueter]

I also did something like this. It's fun to port lisp constructs to Javascript.

http://foohack.com/tests/ycomb.html