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jerf
on May 5, 2014
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Why I am excited about Clojure
Named... anonymous... functions? Wuzzah fuzzah?
weavejester
on May 5, 2014
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They allow you to use recursion without the need for a Y-combinator.
awj
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Yeah, that's a terminology issue. They mean lexically scoped named functions. Versus the default in Clojure of global or namespace scope.
larholm
on May 5, 2014
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Just like in Javascript.
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