possible solution to fake being able to serialize lambdas in Cascalog?

serialize-lambda

(import 'java.util.UUID)

(defn uuid-gensym [& [prefix]]
  (gensym (format "%suuid%s-"
                  (str (when prefix (str prefix "-")))
                  (UUID/randomUUID))))

(defmacro mk-var [to-bind]
  `(def ~(uuid-gensym) ~to-bind))

;; example use in a cascalog query

(defparallelagg count
  :init-var (mk-var (fn [] 1))
  :combine-var #'+)

;; ... OR 
;; ... somewhere in the Cascalog code where it handles functions:

(if (var? f) f
  (mk-var f))

;; then you should be able to instead say

(defparallelagg count
  :init-var (fn [] 1)
  :combine-var +)