sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: Read-time macros are imported from Common Lisp, and are occasionally very useful, for clarity. This is true. The same thing goes for `eval-when-compile' feature-testing constructs. Unlike `eval-when-compile', which *SCREAMS* that the code will be evaluated at compile-time, the #[-+] constructs are sooo easy to write without realizing the consequences. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- aibohphobia (ay' bo fo beeya): n. The fear of palindromes.