Reducing to a collection

Question

Hi guys. New to clojure. First post here. I'll try to keep it short. I can't figure out why this function doesn't work.

(def countToFive
  (reduce
    (fn [acc x] (into acc [(+ x (last acc))]))
    [1]
    [1 1 1 1]
    )
  )

As the name suggests its supposed to count to five.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help explain.

Answer 1

"...why this function doesn't work." Short answer: it is not a function. def just binds a symbol to the result of the enclosed form.

If you want a function, you can change the first line to

(defn countToFive []

Comments

Oh my goodness. My problem is that I was doing (println (countToFive)) instead of just (println countToFive). I spent hours staring at that definition going THIS SHOULD BE WORKING over that stupid problem. Thanks guys.

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Answer 2

This produces [1 2 3 4 5] -- what are you trying to produce?