This is a follow up to a question I asked recently on the CLSQL list. I think the problem is my mental model of Slime. My environment is OS X 10.6.3, Clozure 1.3-r12755M, PostgreSQL 8.4.1, and CLSQL 5.0.5. My problem is with the CLSQL square bracket syntax in Slime. If I run the code below from a REPL started at the command line, it works fine. I can use either the file-enable-sql-reader-syntax or the locally-enable-sql-reader-syntax / restore-sql-reader-syntax-state pair fine. When I evaluate the same code in Slime with C-x C-e or C-c C-r, however, I get this error when defining add-customer: ;Compiler warnings : ; In ADD-CUSTOMER: Undeclared free variable [= ; In ADD-CUSTOMER: Undeclared free variable [ID] ; In ADD-CUSTOMER: Undeclared free variable ID] and this error when trying to add a customer object: Unbound variable: [= [Condition of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE] This happens with either way of enabling the square bracket syntax. Am I misunderstanding something fundamental about Slime? Has anyone managed to use Slime for CLSQL development with the square bracket syntax? Thanks, Patrick (in-package :common-lisp-user) (defpackage :clsql-testing (:use :common-lisp :clsql)) (in-package :clsql-testing) (file-enable-sql-reader-syntax) ;(locally-enable-sql-reader-syntax) (def-view-class customer () ((id :db-kind :key :db-constraints :not-null :initarg :id :reader id :type integer) (name :db-constraints :not-null :initarg :name :reader name :type string) (phone-number :db-constraints :not-null :initarg :phone-number :accessor phone-number :type string)) (:base-table "test_customer")) (defconstant +id-sequence+ "id_sequence") (defun add-customer (name phone-number) "Add a customer." (let ((id (sequence-next +id-sequence+))) (update-records-from-instance (make-instance 'customer :id id :name name :phone-number phone-number)) (first (select 'customer :where [= [id] id] :flatp t)))) (connect '("localhost" "db-name" "user" "password") :database-type :postgresql-socket :if-exists :new :pool t) (defparameter customer-foo (add-customer "Test Customer Foo" "0123456789")) (id customer-foo) ;(restore-sql-reader-syntax-state) (disconnect-pooled)