You could definitely do something like this in other languages, probably even in Java/C# using a HashMap or Dictionary, but the difference is that this is “the

You could definitely do something like this in other languages, probably even in Java/C# using a HashMap or Dictionary, but the difference is that this is “the way” you would do this in Clojure. It’s not, generally speaking, they way you’d do it in the other languages you mentioned. I think it’s one of the reasons why people always say that learning Clojure makes them better developers even when they’re not using Clojure. The ideas that that take away from idiomatic Clojure and use in other languages.