Generally, in Clojure you'd write (do (foo) (bar)). The do form tells Clojure to evaluate its arguments in order. Some forms have an implicit do, e.g. (when x y

Generally, in Clojure you'd write (do (foo) (bar)). The do form tells Clojure to evaluate its arguments in order. Some forms have an implicit do, e.g. (when x y z) is (if x (do x y)), but in general the order in which forms are evaluated depends on the form containing them.