Chapter 2. Drinking from the Clojure fire hose
This chapter covers
- Scalars: the base data types
- Putting things together: collections
- Making things happen: functions
- Vars are not variables
- Locals, loops, and blocks
- Preventing things from happening: quoting
- Using host libraries via interop
- Exceptional circumstances
- Modularizing code with namespaces
This chapter provides a quick tour of the bare necessities—the things you’ll need to know to understand the rest of this book. It may seem odd to provide a tutorial-like chapter right away, but we felt that it was more important to introduce the ideas of the language first rather than the mechanics.[1] If you’ve been programming with Clojure for a while, this may be a review, but otherwise ...
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