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by hga 4741 days ago
It's not from a Scheme viewpoint, and specifically SICP, which is where he's starting from.

Frankly, I'd prefer if it were idiomatic to locally defn inside Clojure defns, letfn is not hardly so elegant or clear. One of a number of areas where I find Clojure needlessly less tasteful and elegant than Scheme, but all are at least tolerable.