time of evaluation of defstruct, deftype, etc.

[David A. Moon <Moon@SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA>]

    Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1986  20:35 EST
    From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>

	This problem cannot be solved with multiple address spaces, unless you have a
	very complicated mechanism for sharing objects between address spaces, 

    I don't understand this.  What has to be shared in a complicated way?

Copy-on-write is fine for getting things to the compiler, but what if you want to
get something back?

I don't want to get into a long discussion of this.

	Stepping back a level, the main issue for the Common Lisp community is do
	we want to say that this is an issue which each implementation should solve
	for itself, in order to have a compiler that can be considered "high quality",
	or is this something that should be made a standard part of the language,
	with a portable interface?  Obviously one alternative is "better" for the
	users and the other alternative is less work for the language standardization
	effort.

    As I said in my answer to Weinreb, the way you want to go about solving
    this problem depends a lot on the kind of system you're running in.

So your position is that this should not be made a standard part of the language.
OK.