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Re: First Class environments in CL ??



Your ideas about what applyhook could be used for are interesting, but
not what it was historically put in for.  It was put in to make it
possible for a program that steps through execution of an interpreted
program to get control after all the arguments have been evaluated and
before the function receives control.  A hook for the "fvaluation" of
the function in the car of the form would be useful, perhaps, but Common
Lisp doesn't have one now.  It would be better to add a third hook for
this than to incompatibly change the meaning of applyhook.  Note that
the fvaluation of the function has to happen -before- the arguments
are evaluated, because that's how EVAL finds out that it's dealing with
a macro or a special form.

I would be the first to admit that this stuff could benefit from
clarification.