8:10:17beachI think those are the essential aspects that will determine the performance of the system. The implementations of MAPCAR, the package system, LOOP, FORMAT, or the condition system are not going to change anything in that respect.
8:11:06beachSo the idea is to relieve the implementer of those nonessential but tedious aspects, so as to facilitate experimentation for the essentials.
8:12:02beachI guess I have not made that idea clear in the SICL documentation.