;; The following defines a lazy-seq of all positive numbers. Note that
;; the lazy-seq allows us to make a recursive call in a safe way because
;; the call does not happen immediately but instead creates a closure.
user=> (defn positive-numbers
([] (positive-numbers 1))
([n] (cons n (lazy-seq (positive-numbers (inc n))))))
#'user/positive-numbers
user=> (take 5 (positive-numbers))
(1 2 3 4 5)
;; The following defines a lazy-seq of all positive numbers. Note that
;; the lazy-seq allows us to make a recursive call in a safe way because
;; the call does not happen immediately but instead creates a closure.
user=> (defn positive-numbers
([] (positive-numbers 1))
([n] (cons n (lazy-seq (positive-numbers (inc n))))))
#'user/positive-numbers
user=> (take 5 (positive-numbers))
(1 2 3 4 5)