I understand vaguely. My understanding is that recur is related to tail-call-optimization. Where can I get more detailed info on recur?
thanks -sun On Jan 24, 11:00 am, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 24.01.2009 um 16:50 schrieb wubbie: > > > I wonder why self-call(filter) is used in one place and > > recur is used in the other. > > The filter call happens inside the lazy-cons. That means > that the call to filter does not happen immediately, but > later on when you call rest on the lazy-cons. > > The recur is used when the predicate does not return > true, because here we stay inside filter and recursive > call could blow up the stack. > > Sincerely > Meikel > > smime.p7s > 5KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
