The Joy of Clojure

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Clojure philosophy

Figure 1.1. Broad goals of Clojure: this figure shows some of the concepts that underlie the Clojure philosophy, and how they intersect.

Figure 1.2. The Runner: a child’s flip book serves to illustrate Clojure’s notions of state, time, and identity. The book itself represents the identity. Whenever you wish to show a change in the illustration, you draw another picture and add it to the end of your flip book. The act of flipping the pages therefore represents the states over time of the image within. Stopping at any given page and observing the particular picture represents the state of the Runner at that moment in time.

Figure 1.3. The Mutable Runner: modeling state change with mutation requires ...