On 20 November 2014 19:33, Alex Baranosky <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Imo, that makes the let version even better. The Clojure compiler doesn't
> to allow circular dependencies, so I would consider the letfn behavior as
> "surprising" and therefore unideal.
>

It does, via declare. This is often necessary in parsers, as often
languages have some form of recursive definition (e.g. expressions can be
nested in expressions).

The letfn macro allows for local mutual recursion and is sometimes
necessary.

- James

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