Q:

Clojure REPL crashes in IntelliJ when using dotimes over a loop/recur construct

I've defined a simple factorial function in the REPL:
(defn factorial [n]
  (loop [current n fact 1]
    (if
      (= current 1)
      fact
      (recur (dec current) (* current fact)))))

The function works fine. But when I try to call the function multiple times with a dotimes loop the REPL seems to stop working. I don't get any results back anymore for whatever expression I type and have to restart the REPL.
I loop with:
(dotimes [x 10]
  (println "Factorial of " x " is " (factorial x)))

I'm using IntelliJ with the La Clojure plugin (Clojure version 1.3.0).

A:

I bet it takes an awfully long time to compute (factorial 0) with that function definition...

