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by jerf 4427 days ago
Named... anonymous... functions? Wuzzah fuzzah?
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weavejester 4427 days ago
They allow you to use recursion without the need for a Y-combinator.
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awj 4427 days ago
Yeah, that's a terminology issue. They mean lexically scoped named functions. Versus the default in Clojure of global or namespace scope.
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larholm 4427 days ago
Just like in Javascript.
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