Thanks everyone! This seems so obvious now that I look at it.

On Oct 19, 10:55 am, Siddhartha Reddy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The arguments 'n' and 'e' to the calls to findFib on lines 7 and 8 are
> enclosed in parens, causing them to be treated as lists. Clojure expects the
> first element in a list to be a function and is therefore trying to cast it
> to an IFn which of course fails.
>
> I think this is what you are looking for:
>
> (defn findFib
>        "Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do
> not exceed four million."
>        [e n p]
>        (if (< n 1000000)
>                (if (= (rem n 2) 0)
>                        (findFib (+ e n) (+ n p) n)
>                        (findFib e (+ n p) n))
>        (str "Value is " e)))
>
> Please note the absence of parens around the third argument to findFib on
> line 7 and around the first and third arguments to findFib on line 8.
>
> Best,
> Siddhartha
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Peregrine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hey I am new to Clojure and I am doing some Project Euler problems to
> > help me get started with the language. I've run into a issue I cannot
> > seem to get past. I have this code:
>
> > (defn findFib
> >        "Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the sequence which do
> > not exceed four million."
> >        [e n p]
> >        (if (< n 1000000)
> >                (if (= (rem n 2) 0)
> >                        (findFib (+ e n) (+ n p) (n))
> >                        (findFib (e) (+ n p) (n)))
> >        (str "Value is " e)))
>
> > And I keep getting this error
>
> > 1:9 problem2=> (findFib 0 1 2)
> > 1:10 problem2=> java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot
> > be cast to clojure.lang.IFn (repl-1:9)
>
> > I know my code may be incorrect to find the issue at hand but I cannot
> > get passed this issue.
>
> > Can anyone help?
>
> > Thanks!!
> > peregrine.

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