13:31:56scymtymBike: if it can wait a little longer, i would prefer to address the *READTABLE* issue after finishing the labeled object changes. for the labeled object changes, i have pushed additional commits to the sharpsign-equals-protocol branch that should fix the issue with :DEFINITION and :REFERENCE and also read the Eclector source code as part of the test suite to prevent this type of issue in the future. could you test with clasp one