These responses are all super helpful, thank you! I'd love to hear more 
pitfalls/pain points if anyone else wants to share.

Thanks!
Daniel

On Monday, October 27, 2014 6:59:43 AM UTC-4, Gary Verhaegen wrote:
>
> As recently mentioned on another thread, this also means that you cannot 
> have two different protocols with the same method names in the same 
> namespace. This may be surprising, especially from an OO background, where 
> it is very natural to have two types with the same operations.
>
> On Monday, 27 October 2014, Sven Richter <sve...@googlemail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> When running through tutorials and blog posts it did not occur to me that 
>> the functions of a defprotocol are namespaced to where they are defined. 
>> Meaning, calling these functions I have to use their original namespace.
>> It is obvious when one reads the official documentation, but one does not 
>> always do this first, so that wsa one pitfall I ran into.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Sven
>>
>> Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014 16:48:29 UTC+1 schrieb Daniel Higginbotham:
>>>
>>> What's difficult when it comes to understanding multimethods, records, 
>>> types, and protocols? I'm writing a chapter on multimethods, records, 
>>> types, and protocols for the book Clojure for the Brave and True, and I'd 
>>> love to hear about what kinds of pitfalls I should be sure to cover :)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Daniel
>>>
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