Confirmed with a user on #lisp. Both alisp and acl-express.
In *slime-scratch*, try evaluating (+ 1 'foo) with C-x C-e. The swank-debugger fails to come up. It works fine in SBCL and Clojure.
Also, does anyone know what happened to the little "eval..." message in the emacs status bar when the lisp is working? That was extremely useful to me.
-Luke