I'm not a Clojure user, but I am a bit confused about why you can't have EVAL, and also a COMPILE function, which does the appropriate dead-code elimination. T

I'm not a Clojure user, but I am a bit confused about why you can't have EVAL, and also a COMPILE function, which does the appropriate dead-code elimination. That is, in Common Lisp, the REPL functions aren't usually compiled, but you can call a COMPILE function to trigger them into bytecode. I don't see the difference for your problem. I would like to be corrected. :-)