Monads are used in Clojure, just not for this particular use-case because it's unnecessary the majority of the time. A good example of monad (and macros) use w

Monads are used in Clojure, just not for this particular use-case because it's unnecessary the majority of the time. A good example of monad (and macros) use would be: http://github.com/clojure/core.async http://github.com/clojure/core.async