I'm not saying this is everyone's experience or anything, but at times I 
have at times considered some deeper STM-work with agents but I could not 
seem to penetrate the documentation at the time. I do not know if it's 
different now

-- Morgon

On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 5:38:08 PM UTC-4, James Reeves wrote:
>
> On 6 May 2015 at 21:58, Alex Miller <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> I would have to say that the biggest surprise is how little they're 
>> needed in Clojure. The combination of immutable data, functions to update 
>> complex data structures, and fast pure function updates with atoms actually 
>> satisfies a large percentage of real use cases.
>>
>
> I'll echo this. I've been using Clojure for years, and I can't recall ever 
> needing refs (or agents for that matter).
>
> - James
>

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