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How do I create a recursive anonymous function in Clojure which is not tail recursive?
The following clearly doesn’t work, as recur is only for tail recursive functions. I’m also reluctant to drag in a y-combinator..
((fn [n] (if (= 1 n) 1 (* n (recur (dec n))))) 5)
Functions can be given a name to refer to themselves by specifying it between
fnand the arglist: