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Clojure is a general-purpose language supporting interactive development that encourages a functional programming style, and simplifies multithreaded programming.

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What are the functional equivalents of imperative break statements and other loop checks?

I don't know Clojure, but I believe it uses strict evaluation, so I would expect it to have a fold function in its standard library that includes specific support for early termination. … A quick look at the Clojure library documentation suggests that it is a little different from most functional languages in naming, and that fold isn't what you're looking for (it's a more advanced mechanism …
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