The semantics of the final example sounds a lot like the concept of an Atom in clojure - https://clojure.org/reference/atoms https://clojure.org/reference/atoms

The semantics of the final example sounds a lot like the concept of an Atom in clojure - https://clojure.org/reference/atoms https://clojure.org/reference/atoms Is this swap/deref pattern something that can or should be wrapped up into a create?