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Successor to eval-when?



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    From: Rob MacLachlan <RAM@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
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    Subject: Successor to eval-when?


	If anyone has an idea for a replacement to eval-when, speak up.  I
    don't have any idea of anything that would be better.  There seem to
    be two main reasons people are upset with eval-when:
     1] It is currently ill-defined.
     2] It is hard to understand.
    I believe that the first problem is fairly easy to fix; I suspect that
    the second problem is inherent in the nature of the beast.

      Rob
It is also poorly named according to the semantics that people
seem to have agreed upon.