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To this day 'uplevel' is still one of the more bonkers things I've seen in a programming language.

Are you sure? Uplevel enables various metaprogramming techniques with far less weird magic than C++ requires!

I have no criticism of it, it just feels like a different evolutionary path versus my journey to as-pure-as-reasonable FP.

Most metaprogramming can probably be described as somewhat bonkers!

Yeah, ADL says hello. Basically dynamic scoped variables from Clipper/Lisp/Perl, with types into the mix.

I found it very handy.