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I'm fairly sure that this post holds some answers to what should be done in the large:

Seeing all ACTION!s as variadic FRAME!-makers

This thread is interesting because it's where I first started seeing ACTION! and FRAME! as being kind of "the same type". The ideas evolved into today's concept of actions as being the antiform of frame. There was an uncomfortable period of MAKE OBJECT! where the idea of a "spec" was introduced, and the concept was that the low level object creation would be non-evaluative. This plugged some holes of how to make sure you didn't lose anything by representing null states in a block, etc. >> m…