> I like your patch, but can you enhance it so that it works when swank
> is not available?

Unfortunately, swank does not modify * features *. I use to check
for swank: (when (find-package: swank) ...). I added ignore-errors in 
case of any other swank.

> If you really love loop

In my code I always use iterate:)

I modified the code in line with your comments.

Andrey