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by robto 419 days ago
Haha, I read The Joy of Clojure way back in 2013 and conflated the different reference types with STM. So thanks for mentioning that, I always thought it weird that you'd need STM for vars and atoms too.

That said, I have never used a ref, nor seen one in use outside of a demo blogpost.

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Totally! They are rare. Cheers