Clojure tutorial - use an atom to make a run once function wrapper!

Hey guys! I’m super amped to have made a video with Peter, the guy who introduced me to Clojure :) He is also the author of a number of Clojure libraries!

This video covers solving a problem using Clojure. The problem here being the need for a function that can only run once.

This video covers problem solving, creating good docstrings, using atoms and checking thread safety.

This video was super exciting to make and I think it turned out really well. The follow up to this video will be launched next week, as the total film time was really long so I think it was better to split the videos up.

Gist: https://gist.github.com/danownsthisspace/f10f85ab51681139255a920f9885c74c

00:00 intro 01:00 setup 01:48 going over idea 02:33 create function to limit 03:42 make function that can only be called once 07:37 atom naming convention 11:06 creating a doc string 13:27 implementing code 13:43 using compare and set 16:00 testing the function 16:33 add arguments to nullary function 18:50 checking thread safety 19:42 end once function ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zoNfM70cR0