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I don't believe recur works with mutual recursion. I wish I understood mutual recursion better, frankly. Got any pointers about how one might use it in practice

I don't believe recur works with mutual recursion. I wish I understood mutual recursion better, frankly. Got any pointers about how one might use it in practice? In general my Lisp-fu could use a lot of improvement. I would call it more like Ruby vs. Python — c'mon, perl? that's just mean — but yes, we're quibbling. :)

chongli 14y ago
>Got any pointers about how one might use it in practice? The meta-circular evaluator is a prime example of mutual recursion. It consists of two functions, eval and apply, which call each other in a circular fashion until a result is reached.