>From: "John David Stone" <xxxxxx@cs.grinnell.edu>

> >  Alternative suggestions?
>
>         The oddity is the use of the ampersand as the initial character.
> One alternative suggestion would be to use the names CONDITION,
> MESSAGE-CONDITION, SERIOUS-CONDITION, and
> ERROR-CONDITION.

I second this.  Let's use fully spelled names.

P.