I’m learning clojure and have been using 4clojure.com to get better. I just completed #19 but it seems like maybe I haven’t done it quite as the author’s have anticipated – like I’ve perhaps missed the point somehow.

Given the constraint that you cannot use the last function does this seem like a reasonable solution?
#(.get %(- (count %) 1))
That’s a valid solution. I would go with
#(nth % (dec (count %)))as being more idiomatic, but they’re functionally equivalent.