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Clojure

name

Etymology

From closure, respelled with the letter J from Java.

Definitions

  1. A dialect of the Lisp programming language that runs on the JVM.

    • Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Clojure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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