Hello, I'm pleased to announce that my proposal for Common Lisp "File-Local Variables" has been accepted, finalized and published at the Common Document Repository. It can now be referred to as CDR #9. The abstract is given below: The Common Lisp standard defines two special variables, *PACKAGE* and *READTABLE*, that are treated in a special way: the functions LOAD and COMPILE-FILE establish a new dynamic binding for each of them, so that any modification to their value at load or compile time becomes local to the file being processed. It is this particular treatment of these variables that allows for IN-PACKAGE or IN-READTABLE (from the NAMED-READTABLES library) to essentially have a ``file-local'' effect. The motivation for the present document is the claim that this behavior could be useful for other, user-defined variables, although there is currently no way to do so in standard Common Lisp. -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com EPITA/LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire, 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Tel. +33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 Fax. +33 (0)1 53 14 59 22