Maybe this could lead, in a roundabout way, to saner ways of dealing with hash tables and non-list sequences in general in Common Lisp. Currently these need clunky, verbose code for many use cases. Writing your own functions/macros is of course possible, but it feels disorganized without ensuring an overarching system of conventions. AFAIK a uniform way of handling sequences was one of the early selling points of Clojure, according to Rich Hickey himself. Sequences which are immutable, which I don't care much for (as I cherish the out-of-your-way CL philosophy), but it's a compromise.<p>Alternatively I could spend some time assessing rutils or some other fundamental extension library... I'd like, one day, for one of those to gain a good tutorial and a bigger mindshare in the community.