Collecting proposals for packages, readtables, etc.

[Jonathan A Rees <JAR@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>]

While the discussion about the relationship between compilation
environment and load environment has been interesting, and the problem
is important (and probably insoluble, given CL's compilation and
modularity paradigms), I want to point out that my message of a couple
days ago, which apparently started this, was asking something very
different and much simpler.  I simply want to be able to set the
readtable (and package) with which a *source* file will be *read* by
COMPILE-FILE and LOAD.  Symbolics Common Lisp gives me no way to do
this, and I wanted to know whether people felt that CL was defined in
such a way that COMPILE-FILE and LOAD, in the absence of standard
(IN-PACKAGE, EVAL-WHEN, etc.) and nonstandard (-*- Syntax: ... -*-)
bindings of package and readtable, are required to respect the bindings
in effect when they are invoked.  If so, then I should report a bug in
Symbolics Common Lisp.

- Jonathan