The Clojure Workshop

6. Recursion and Looping

Overview

In this chapter, you will learn more flexible ways to work with collections. When the problem you need to solve does not fit the patterns that we've looked at so far. We will also use doseq for loops with side effects and see how you can avoid writing some loops by using specialized repetition functions such as repeat and iterate. You will use recur for recursive looping and identify when this is possible, work with the loop macro, and solve complex problems with recursion.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to implement different aspects of recursion and see how they can replace traditional loops.

Introduction

Data in our programs doesn't always take the nice, linear form for which functions ...