I thought about that, but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea. I suppose as 
long as my function definitions are short enough that anyone reading them 
can see both the name binding and all of its usages, then there's not so 
much confusion.

Thanks.

On Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:59:39 AM UTC-4, tbc++ wrote:
>
> Also notice that local scope overrides the global scope (unlike other 
> languages). So something like this is perfectly legal:
>
> (defn foo [x]
>  (let [seq (next x)]
>   seq))
>
> Now, if you need to use the function known as "seq" later on in your 
> function, you may run into issues. But I often use clojure.core names as 
> variables if it makes a given function cleaner. 
>
> Timothy
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Michael Klishin 
> <michael....@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> 2013/3/28 Mark <mjt...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
>>
>>> Do other people have this problem? Am I just too uncreative? Am I being 
>>> too terse?
>>
>>
>> Simply exclude some clojure.core functions in your namespace declaration 
>> and use them as clojure.core/... 
>> if you need them. It's perfectly fine to use names such as find,get and 
>> so on in your own namespaces.
>>
>>
>> http://clojure-doc.org/articles/language/namespaces.html#the_referclojure_helper_form
>>
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