Here is an implementation of *default-special-bindings*, with a test. I opted for thunks instead of forms to eval because eval is evil. They are called in the new thread; changing this is trivial by changing the binding-default-specials function used by all backends. However, I won't be using it for fluid-database (http://repo.or.cz/w/clsql/s11.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/fluid-pools), because ht-fluids are easier to use and have a better guarantee of availability and finalization. -- I write stuff at http://failex.blogspot.com/ now. But the post formatter and themes are terrible for sharing code, the primary content, so it might go away sooner or later.