Why use Clojure?

Re:Why use Clojure? by JackMorgan on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @07:26PM (#6961697)

Don't you mean clojure has a MORE robust indication of scope than other languages? In clojure you can nest lets, and it is very obvious when the binding is out of scope, but in c-style languages, once bound, they stay bound till the end of the function.

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Re:Why use Clojure? by TylerE on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @08:09PM (#6961808)

Nope, Nimrod (at least) has full lexical scopes if you want

    proc foo(x: int): int = 
      let z = x * 2
      #z visible
      block:
        let y = z * 4 #z & y visible
      let foo = 3 #z and foo visible, y out of scope

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Re:Why use Clojure? by JackMorgan on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @11:39AM (#6963329)

I said "c-style", not ML style.

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