"Rob Lachlan" <robertlach...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Because the compiler is upset that it doesn't know what n is.  r is a
>long, but n is ???.  The following works:
>
>(defn ^:static fact [^long n]
>  (loop [n n r 1]
>    (if (zero? n)
>      r
>      (recur (dec n) (* r n)))))
>
>Or see Dnolen's version above.  But yeah, I wish that it still worked,
>because it used to work just fine.

Is there reason the compiler can't box r instead of throwing an exception?
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