There is - USOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT. If we end up in petty and unproductive nitpicking like that, then there's no standard way to open a TCP socket in Clojure ei

There is - USOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT. If we end up in petty and unproductive nitpicking like that, then there's no standard way to open a TCP socket in Clojure either. Mostly because Clojure, unlike Common Lisp, does not have a standard to talk of.