Test whether a list contains a specific value in Clojure

Question

What is the best way to test whether a list contains a given value in Clojure?

In particular, the behaviour of contains? is currently confusing me:

Answer 1

Here's the classic Lisp solution:

(defn member? [list elt]
    "True if list contains at least one instance of elt"
    (cond 
        (empty? list) false
        (= (first list) elt) true
        true (recur (rest list) elt)))