Akin to what Johann said, why bother with the functions that deal with the value/state? Put another way, the cell has identity over time, thus implemented as a ref. A function that, say, prints a cell, should take a cell/ref as its arg.
Probably more than you need, but I highly recommend Rich's talk on the subject of identity and state: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en