The SLIME inspector loses when inspecting gensyms (and, judging from the error message, probably all symbols with no package). Why do I want to do this? Because I store some gensyms in a hashtable during a macroexpansion that get assigned fdefinitions I want to inspect. So there. :-P Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)