This is kinda my point tho, CL's symbols are the same as Clojure's vars for this purpose. And the comparison between generic functions and multimethods is obvio

This is kinda my point tho, CL's symbols are the same as Clojure's vars for this purpose. And the comparison between generic functions and multimethods is obvious and correct here as well. Late binding is irrelevant because all of this is about functions as arguments, not in funcall position.