Anonymous recursive PHP functions

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Is it possible to have a PHP function that is both recursive and anonymous? This is my attempt to get it to work, but it doesn’t pass in the function name.

$factorial = function( $n ) use ( $factorial ) {
    if( $n <= 1 ) return 1;
    return $factorial( $n - 1 ) * $n;
};
print $factorial( 5 );

I’m also aware that this is a bad way to implement factorial, it’s just an example.

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