Nice post. As the author of the original snippet I'll admit it wasn't meant to be production-quality code, just a toy example in the context of a blog post. Whe

Nice post. As the author of the original snippet I'll admit it wasn't meant to be production-quality code, just a toy example in the context of a blog post. When I find code like that in a reasonably large production codebase I tend to refactor it too. I do believe in optimizing for readability by default; in Clojure this sometimes requires a bit of effort because of the "stalagmite" effect OP describes.