Hi,

On Nov 25, 9:10 am, Gabi <bugspy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> For example why doesn't the following "repeatedly" never crash?
>
> (defn repeatedly
>   [f] (lazy-seq (cons (f) (repeatedly f))))

Because the nested call is deferred until the sequence is realised.
Then the original function already returned. So it does not build up
the stack until it crashes.

> (last (repeatedly rand)) ;won't crash

But it won't return either. Not sure which result is more
favorable. ;)

Sincerely
Meikel

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