Hans Hübner -> Edi Weitz
You were the one who convinced me that *break-on-signals* is all you need, and who am I to dissent? :P
Just as an apropos to the discussion: I just had the cunning idea to use an around method on process-request to set up some dynamic variables that were initially unbound, and with a handler-bind that would compute the init-forms upon first use of the variable, thus only computing the bindings' init-forms when they are actually required. The *break-on-signals* approach would not mix well with this technique.