On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: > This naming of a helper function to "loop" is non-idiomatic, because there > is a built-in construct "loop", which works somewhat like named let in > Scheme (without the name), allowing you to combine the function definition > and the initial values at once. Idiomatic version of this would be:
Oh ok. > There's a subtle concern here though. Clojure, by default, uses longs. If > you try to do something large, like (acc-pow 2 500), you'll get an overflow > error. One easy fix is to change the 1 to 1N, and then you'll get boxed > numerics. Another option is to change * to *'. Nice. Thanks for the feedback everybody. -- 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
