Summary

In this chapter, we introduced a few programming constructs that can be used in the Clojure language. We've explored recursion using the recur, loop, and trampoline forms. We've also studied the basics of sequences and laziness, while describing the various functions in the Clojure language that are used in creating, transforming, and filtering sequences. Next, we had a look at zippers, and how they can be used to idiomatically handle trees and hierarchical data such as XML. Finally, we briefly explored pattern matching using the core.match and defun libraries.

In the next chapter, we will explore concurrency and parallelism. We will study the various data structures and functions that allow us to leverage these concepts in Clojure in ample detail.