Thursday, March 17, 2011

recursion defination

recursion defination However, I received some flak for that post because there are better ways to implement run-length encoding with Clojure. While certainly true, I think some of my critics1 missed the point of the exercise.
Having said that; their points are valid because in Clojure (and likely most, if not all functional languages) recursion should be seen as a low-level2 operation and avoided if at all possible. The better path is to take a survey of the available higher-order . That said,

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