On Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:30:13 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote:

Calling fib just creates a new function, no values
> are calculated. So you're measuring the time
> it takes to create a function, and not the calculation
> of fibonacci numbers.
>
>
Oops ;)
Of course you are right. The amazing thing is that the times I observed 
fitted somehow the situation (the first (fib 30) call taking much more time 
than the others, the third call more than the second and fourth) that I was 
tricked into believing the calculations were being done and wasn't careful 
enough ... btw, why does such a thing happen if in all four cases only a 
function is being created as you say?

And given that a simple let as follows cannot be used:

(let [fib (memoize
            #(if (or (zero? %) (= % 1))
               1
               (+ (fib (- % 1)) (fib (- % 2)))))]
  ...)

Is this an example of something that cannot be elegantly expressed without 
a letrec, and for which letfn is not enough as a substitute?

Regards,
Paulo

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