Ok. Now I get it. Cool stuff

On Nov 25, 4:18 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> 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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