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proposal LOAD-TIME-EVAL:REVISED-NEW-SPECIAL-FORM
- To: Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
 
- Subject: proposal LOAD-TIME-EVAL:REVISED-NEW-SPECIAL-FORM
 
- From: Eric Benson <eb@lucid.com>
 
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 88 17:10:12 pdt
 
- Cc: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu, cl-compiler@sail.stanford.edu,        kmp@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM, cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
 
- In-reply-to: David A. Moon's message of Tue, 20 Sep 88 19:46 EDT <19880920234609.8.MOON@EUPHRATES.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
 
I agree completely with Moon's criticism of this proposal.  I would
prefer to remove #, and its functionality altogether from the
language.  It just isn't that important.  I have yet to see any use for
#, which could not have been achieved by other means.