On Feb 1, 9:21 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote:

and, despite of a lack of counterexamples, that is what I have done
for now.

Now you can (optionally) put a symbol between fn and [ and that name
will be in scope in the body of the fn definition, where it will refer
to the fn itself. This will allow for recursive anonymous functions.
defn does this in its expansion.

Interestingly, when changing those parts of Clojure that let a
recursive fn I always chose 'this' for the fn name, not the let name.
It seemed clearer, and isolated the let-bound name to the let, so if
it needed to be renamed I wouldn't have to touch the fn body.

I've also removed the injection of the let name into the fn
expression. Even if I revisit that in the future, I won't take away
the anonymous fn naming syntax.

Rich