Chapter 3. Dipping your toes in the pool

 

This chapter covers

  • Truthiness
  • Nil punning
  • Destructuring
  • Using the REPL to experiment

Deeper and broader topics will be covered in later chapters, but now’s a good time to pick through an eclectic selection of smaller topics. The topics covered in this chapter stand alone but are important. Covering them now will be a fun way to start digging into practical matters of how to use Clojure.

3.1. Truthiness

3.2. Nil pun with care

3.3. Destructuring

3.4. Using the REPL to experiment

3.5. Summary