Let me move the whitespace in your code so it’s obvious to you what is wrong:
(defn factors [x]
((loop [n x i 2 acc []]
(if (prime? n) (conj acc n)
(if (zero? (mod n i)) (recur (/ n i) 2 (conj acc i))
(recur n (inc i) acc))))))
You see that weird ((
at the start of your function? What’s that all about? Remember that in Clojure, as in lisps in general, parentheses are not a grouping construct! They are a function-call mechanism, and you can’t just throw extras in for fun. Here, what you wrote has the following meaning:
- Run this
loop
that will compute a vector.- Call the resulting value as a function, passing it no arguments.