to expose so a :tree recursion there would be very annoying. And please don't tell me to :ignore-inherited-configuration, for what's the point of the default configuration if so many people either don't use it or have to explicitly ignore it ?
well, for now it's two hard-core hackers, for whom it's probably marginal to get things back on track *if* it actually breaks something for them. but we have no idea about the number of newcomers who fire up an apt-get install sbcl for the first time in their lives, and just want to try a piece of code copied from the net... i still remember how goddamn high the fence was to first climb in to the CL+emacs garden. i'm with Robert on this. i'm not sure how the defaults would help on this, though. probably a very slick quicklisp experience has more value than any of these defaults can create. just some 2¢, -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ― Dr. Seuss (1904–1991)