clearly an issue between keyboard and screen...

recur ?

As Tatut wrote, you can use recur. If you call yourself normally, you'll add stack frames for each recursive call, and you might get a stack overflow. If you use recur instead, you will not add stack frames. Not obvious to me what this has to do with XTDB. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/recur https://clojure.org/reference/special_forms#recur

There’s also https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/trampoline and the #C053AK3F9 channel 🙂