On 23 Lip, 01:51, Paul  Mooser <taron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not simply do:
>
> (defn fib [n]
>   (println "called with " n)
>   (if (> n 2)
>     (+ (fib (- n 2)) (fib (- n 1)))
>     1))
>
> (def fib (memoize fib))
>
> I inserted the println to verify when we were actually calling the
> function, and I believe this works - fib only seems to get invoked a
> single time for any given n. Is this solution incorrect in some way?

It uses up stack (becuase you recursive call fib directly, not thrught
recur). For big values of n it could cause stack overflow.

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