The lisp-way to solve Fibonnaci

Question

I wanted to try and learn Lisp, but I very quickly gave up. I figured I\'d try again. I\'m looking at Problem 2 on Project Euler - finding the sum of all even Fibonacci numbers

Answer 1

My understanding of "the spirit of lisp" is to detach yourself from any fixed, dogmatic, stuckup idea of the spirit of lisp, and use the lisp construct that most closely reflects the structure of computation required to solve your problem. For example,

(defun euler2 (&optional (n 4000000))
  (do ((i 1 j)
       (j 2 (+ i j))
       (k 0))
      ((<= n i) k)
    (when (evenp i) (incf k i))))

If you insist on recursion, here is another way:

(defun euler2 (&optional (n 4000000))
  (labels ((fn (i j k) 
             (if (<= n i) k (fn j (+ i j) (if (oddp i) k (+ k i))))))
    (fn 1 2 0)))