Yes, that's basically what my repo does. It started out as an attempt to build 'arc using macros atop Common Lisp' like the original critics claimed could be do

Yes, that's basically what my repo does. It started out as an attempt to build 'arc using macros atop Common Lisp' like the original critics claimed could be done. I pretty much succeeded (and I've been told it's very readable) except that I ended up with a lisp-2. (Lately I've been building it in naked C to get out of that constraint: http://github.com/akkartik/wart/tree/unstable http://github.com/akkartik/wart/tree/unstable) I wasn't aware of no-applicable-method; thanks for that pointer.