You're not creating any rain. You're just reporting the weather, and I appreciate the information.
Yeah, even non-tail recursive functions get optimized by the compiler to avoid any run-time lookup of syms in the global environment. I'm not sure that's the right trade-off, but it seems okay for a compiler. Although hackability is important too. I'll have to think about that and research what other Lisp compilers do.
The split problems seems to be a compiler bug. I'll have to investigate that more.
And Jarc should include strings.arc, there's a conflict with java.lang.String.trim() but that should be okay.
