Recursive Compilation?

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

    Date: Wed, 23 Jul 86 16:29:10 pdt
    From: Jim Kempf <kempf%hplabsc at hplabs.HP.COM>

    ... I can't find anything in CLtL to indicate
    that compilation SHOULDN'T be recursive, but the environmental
    problems with making it so would seem to be pretty hairy (another
    set of bindings for variables in compiler-let?, etc.). Does
    anybody have any comments?

Yes, me, I have a comment.

Compilers ought to be re-entrant.  There's no excuse for them not to be.

COMPILER-LET should be flushed, since MACROLET does what COMPILER-LET
was intended to do, and does it correctly.

- Jonathan