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I used Clojure on a project while spec was still alpha/beta or something, so I never used it. It does sound interesting, but I'm skeptical. Even the way you described it- I'm still just writing a function to validate my data, aren't I? Is that truly any different than just calling `validateFoo()` at the top of my functions in any other language?

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'Maybe Not' is a great talk on this subject matter. https://m.youtube .com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug

There's more power than that in spec. For example, you can globally define :address/zip to be a string that's more than, say, N characters long. Now anytime you encounter an :address/zip, regardless of whether it is inside, say :billing-address or :shipping-address dictionary/map, it can be checked for those function predicates.

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