Re: issue EVAL-WHEN-NON-TOP-LEVEL, version 6

[sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)]

> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 09:20:08 PST
> From: cperdue@Sun.COM (Cris Perdue)
> 
> Ack.  What happened to any version that aims to "fix nesting"?
> That problem has to be the main reason I've ever been
> interested in this issue.

I'm well aware that not everybody likes this proposal.  However,
nobody has given me anything specific to include as an alternate
proposal. 

My own personal position on this issue, as I have several times in the
past, is that I would also like to fix the nesting behavior.  However,
since I got several negative comments on the alternate proposal I
circulated myself, and nobody explicitly expressed support for it, I
decided there was little chance of us reaching consensus on it, and
that it wouldn't be worthwhile for me to pursue it further.

If you (or anybody else) absolutely positively cannot live with the
GENERALIZE-EVAL proposal, *and* you have something specific to propose
instead, by all means go ahead and do so.  The alternative would be to
say nothing on this issue, which I think would be far worse than
GENERALIZE-EVAL.

-Sandra
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