Interactive I/O is not reliable across implementations, and is also difficult to test.
Do we really need to support this? If you, as a programmer, really want interactive I/O, you should probably write your own wrapper to manage I/O to the program. Some enterprising soul could even write a clone of "expect" for CL.
I'd rather lose the :interactive option, than have it and have it work unreliably.
So I'm soliciting comments -- particularly from those who think we should keep it.
It seems like some people also have a means to search Quicklisp to screen suggestions like this. I'd also welcome feedback based on libraries in QL.
thanks, r