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issue PROCLAIM-ETC-IN-COMPILE-FILE



   From: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)
   Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 15:55:47 MDT

   When we last left this issue, we had eliminated proposals YES and NO
   and were debating new names for the DEFPROCLAIM macro in proposal
   NEW-MACRO.

   Talking to some people informally afterwards, the two suggestions that
   appeared to have the most support were DECLAIM and PROCLAMATION.
   However, some people said they didn't like DECLAIM because it might be
   too obscure for non-native English speakers, and some people said they
   didn't like PROCLAMATION because they thought the name should be a
   verb. 

Actually the term Declaim is obvious to all native speakers of latin based
languages.

Patrick.