In Control Structures of Let-over-lambda, they describe an idea of taking bindings and writing a macro that substitutes symbols for values. That's pretty much same thing. quote from the book itself: The expansion uses Labels special form to bind a function around the provided body. The function is named according to the symbol used in the named …

new_gist_file.clj

;; Writing something remotely reminding nlet
(defmacro body-and-bindings
  [bindings & body]
  `(let [~(first bindings) 1
         ~(second bindings) 2]
     ~@body))

;; Expands to: 
(let* [a 1 b 2] (+ a b))

(body-and-bindings [a b] (+ a b))
;; => 3