Hi, I'm new in the community and new to Clojure and both a really great. A big thanks to Rich Hickey and everyone else involved.
I have a question that refers to an example Stuart Halloway used in "Programming Clojure". There he defines the whole numbers as fn: (defn whole-numbers [] (iterate inc 1)) If I use it like this at the REPL (take 99999999 (whole-numbers)) I get: Java heap space [Thrown class java.lang.OutOfMemoryError] This unexpectedly is the same result that I expectedly get when binding whole-numbers to a top-level var and use a huge portion of that. Since whole-numbers is lazy I expected it to run for a certain amount of time but never to run out of memory. Has this anything to do with using the function at the REPL or is there another reason for that? With kind regards Ben -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
