REQUIRE and friends

[<young%YALE-RING@YALE.ARPA>]

[I realize that REQUIRE isn't released.]

While trying to load T3 into ALFL, I got the following error message:

        ** Error: illegal to create new bindings in this environment
          (ENV-LOOKUP ... %LOOP:EXPAND-MACRO #t #t)

This is apparently because I used REQUIRE within a BIND form - thus 
not at top level.  

Why can't I use REQUIRE at any other than top level???

Perhaps REQUIRE should take an optional environment parameter???

Should I just use *REQUIRE instead?  

Sigh.

                                --- Jonathan

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