7:49:33beachAt some point, I introduced HOST-SYMBOL as a subclass of SYMBOL during bootstrapping. Now I am thinking that was a mistake. Instead, I am thinking I should work harder to pretend that host symbols are also SICL symbols.
7:50:42beachSuch work would involve programming the HIR evaluator and the AST evaluator to get the right class when CLASS-OF is asked for, to get the unique number of the class when the STAMP is asked for, and to handle SYMBOL-NAME and SYMBOL-PACKAGE differently.
7:51:13beachFor SYMBOL-NAME I am thinking of lazily generate SICL strings in a hash table mapping symbols to such strings.