Chapter 2Exploring Clojure
Clojure offers great power through functional style, concurrency support, and clean Java interop. But before you can appreciate all these features, you have to start with the language basics. Clojure is very expressive, and this chapter covers many concepts quite quickly. Don’t worry if you don’t understand every detail; we’ll revisit these topics in more detail in later chapters. If possible, bring up a REPL and follow along with the examples as you read.
We’ll start by looking at how to read and understand Clojure code, introducing the key parts of Clojure syntax. If your background is primarily in imperative languages, this tour may seem to be missing key language constructs, such as variables and for loops. Don’t ...
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