Honestly, the JVM is pretty crappy right now for functional language support. A lot of stuff has to be implemented by hand in either the compiler or the program

Honestly, the JVM is pretty crappy right now for functional language support. A lot of stuff has to be implemented by hand in either the compiler or the program itself. Several features in Clojure take the latter track at the moment. I advocate tracking down people from Sun and asking them in a personable, friendly tone of voice to please fix this kind of problem. On their front lawns.