The current swank-allegro has a number of functions in it that are also defined in swank-backend. E.g. ;;; swank-backend

(definterface call-with-syntax-hooks (fn) "Call FN with hooks to handle special syntax." (funcall fn))

;;; swank-allegro

(defimplementation call-with-syntax-hooks (fn) (funcall fn))

My guess is that this is just an accident of history. If I don't hear otherwise, I'll clean up the allegro bit and check it in in the next few days. -- Gary Warren King metabang.com [http://www.metabang.com/] (413) 885 9127 * (206) 338-4052 [Fax] gwking on #lisp (occasionally)