Resolving Metastability Issues During Bootstrapping
Robert I. Strandh · 2014
The fact that CLOS is defined as a CLOS program introduces two categories of issues that must be addressed, namely bootstrapping issues and metastability issues [2]. Of the two, the latter is the more difficult one, and also the one that has the most negative impact on the elegance of the code in that it requires base cases to be handled specially.