I too was confused by where that request variable came from when I did my first compojure project, but I find that it is pretty fair with the macro, although I

I too was confused by where that request variable came from when I did my first compojure project, but I find that it is pretty fair with the macro, although I would have liked to have the request headers added as a variable too. I was expecting to see an interface more like rails metal though, with an 'env variable that contained the whole request. (:params env) (:headers env) etc. Part of the beauty of clojure is that it is very easy to follow the program flow just because there aren't much global variables floating around, why add them?