Programming Clojure, 2nd Edition

Wrapping Up

In this chapter you’ve seen how Clojure’s support for FP strikes a well-motivated balance between academic purity and effectiveness on the Java Virtual Machine. Clojure provides a wide variety of techniques including self-recursion with recur, mutual recursion with trampoline, lazy sequences, and memoization.

Better still, for a wide variety of everyday programming tasks, you can use the sequence library, without ever having to define your own explicit recursions of lazy sequences. Functions like partition create clean, expressive solutions that are much easier to write.

If Clojure were an exclusively FP language, we would turn our attention next to the challenges of living in a world without mutable state and perhaps begin discussing ...