this should not refer to the lambda

[Florian Weimer]

* Alex Blewitt:

> I don't know any construct in Java - or for that matter, other languages - where the RHS of an assignment expression can refer to the lHS of the assignment expression, as  you proposed in http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2010-February/000833.html

C and C++ support this, as do Haskell, Objective Caml and Standard ML.
(This is about expressions in initializers, of course.)

For Ada, special syntax has been suggested to refer to the LHS from
the RHS in assignment statements, to achieve the brevity of operators
such as += without the (perceived) lack of clarity.

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