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Named... anonymous... functions? Wuzzah fuzzah?


They allow you to use recursion without the need for a Y-combinator.


Yeah, that's a terminology issue. They mean lexically scoped named functions. Versus the default in Clojure of global or namespace scope.


Just like in Javascript.




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