17:29:14bikegenerate-ast results in a pointless conditional for lambda lists with &optional, which means a lexical location that only conditionally has a value (but dynamically the condition will always take that path, so there's no runtime problem)
17:55:07bikeAs in, I don't think I understand how they'd be good for compiler macros
18:33:10bikeif i have generate-ast not do inlining on functions with &optional it works. so there's the problem.
18:33:14bikenot the most elegant solution, of course
18:46:40drmeisterBike: I was going to try to get back to working on chemistry code - but this &optional inlining issue leaves me dead in the water. How much trouble would it be to fork sicl and push this to the fork. Why don't we have this anyway - for pull requests and problems just like this.
18:46:58bikewe don't nee dto fork sicl since it's already forked
20:00:03bikei set the -p in an inlined function with &optional to be the argument, thinking i was being clever, but then if you pass NIL the -p will be wrong