Functions in Clojure: Day 4

Let me tell you briefly about special forms and macro calls which are known as expressions just like function calls.

Special forms unlike function calls do not evaluate all of their operands. Best example of special form is if statement.

Learning Clojure: Day 2

I learnt some really cool concepts about data structures in Clojure. We have Numbers, Strings, Maps, Keywords, Sets, Vectors, and Lists. All the data structures are immutable.

Some key points to take away:

• Clojure does not allow string…

Learning Clojure: Day 0

I have been learning Clojure for about two weeks now. I decided to publish a small snippet of what I learn daily in Clojure. This way it can help me know whether I’m making progress each day. More importantly, this is one way of teaching and by that I can help beginner programmers plus…

Functions in Clojure: Day 3

Let’s dive into functions in Clojure, but before that here’s an interesting screenshot for all you functional folks:

Learning Clojure: Day 1

I learnt how to bind names to values using def . I also went through an article which talked about how binding is very different from assignment. He takes a very interesting approach in explaining the concept using Python, Clojure, and Go. Clojure supports only binding and there is no…