How do you return from a function early in Clojure?

Question

Common Lisp has return-from; is there any sort of return in Clojure for when you want to return early from a function?

Answer 1

There isn't a return statement in Clojure. Even if you choose not to execute some code using a flow construct such as if or when, the function will always return something, in these cases nil. The only way out is to throw an exception, but even then it will either bubble all the way up and kill your thread, or be caught by a function - which will return a value.