12:20:29scymtymREAD-COMMON establishes a certain context: *INPUT-STREAM*, *LABELS* (for #1=…), the result stack for the parse-result client. it would do some are all of that
15:54:32scymtymbeach: the consequences of this change are further-reaching than i thought, but if i can figure this out, it might actually improve the architecture a little bit