Question

Are there non-macro versions of and and or in Clojure?

Update: In this case I don’t care about the short circuiting.

Answer 1

or

The function some “Returns the first logical true value of (pred x) for any x in coll, else nil.”

So you could use (some identity coll) for or. Note that its behaviour will differ from or when the last value is false: it will return nil where or would return false.

and

If you don’t need to know the value of the last form in the coll vector, you can use (every? identity coll) for and. This will differ from the behaviour of the and macro in that it returns true if all of its arguments are truthy. See larsmans’ answer if you need the result of the last form.