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[stanonik@nprdc.arpa (Ron Stanonik)]

We've just started running KCL (version June 3 1987).
1) It would be nice if load checked some list of paths to try;
   eg, (setq *load-paths* '("." "/usr/local/lib/kcl" "/usr/local/lib/ops5").
   Then we could tell users to just (load "ops").
2) It would be nice if clear-input worked.
3) It would be nice if some reader macro could be defined to
   match all unmatched open parens; eg, such as ] on franz lisp.
   (This is surely just ignorance on our part, but we can't find
   any function or tag to throw to do this.  Hmm,
   return-from read-delimited-list?)
4) It would be nice if KCL accepted arguments intelligently; currently
   they aren't passed to saved_kcl, and if they were you can't pass
   more than a few without KCL becoming the compiler.
5) Some history of top level input would be nice, so that top
   level forms could be reentered by justing typing a reader
   macro followed by the first part of the desired form.  For
   example, keep the last ten top level forms on a ring and
   then !(load to redo the last load.

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.arpa