Chapter 6. State Management
State in an Immutable World
As much as possible, Clojure advocates eliminating state from programs. In general, data should be passed and returned from functions in a purely functional way. It keeps things clean, protected, and parallelizable.
Often, however, that's simply not possible. The real world is full of changing concepts and so real programs are full of state. If you're writing a word processor, the current document has a state. If you're writing a game, the objects in the game world exist have state. If you're writing financial software, the amount of money in an account is state. This is a fact of the way the world is and the way humans think, and programs need to be able to model it effectively.
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