That's a nice explanation of what's going on. My point remains that I found the syntax confusing though.
It's mixing up assigning a global variable, specifying that variables type, and destructuring an argument list into individual arguments, in one line. I've played at making my own language, and this is one part that I've never been satisfied with.
Personally I'd probably at least go with a `foo = <anonymous function>` syntax to split out the assigning part. But that's spending "strangeness budget" because that's not how C/Python/Java do it, and I can understand the decision to not spend that budget here...