I will have to look for mutual recursion support (or lack thereof) in clojure. Clojure's loop/recur is a work-around for some issue with the JVM and lack of fi

I will have to look for mutual recursion support (or lack thereof) in clojure. Clojure's loop/recur is a work-around for some issue with the JVM and lack of fine grained control over the stack. That said, It's not a simple loop, the keyword "loop" is effectively an anonymous function that gets called by the "recur" keyword, with parameters. An example: (loop [iter 1 acc 0] (if (> iter 10) (println acc) (recur (inc iter) (+ acc iter)))) I don't know if that is any different than other lisps or not. In case it's less less than clear, the bracketed portion after the "loop" keyword is an initial binding form (setting iter to 1, and acc to 0), and thereafter iter and acc are just considered parameters. For self recursion, that seems like a fair compromise. No help at all for mutual recursion though.