Now happy with what's appearing in the oblist. Reader is very broken.

src/c/environment/environment.c

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include "debug.h"
 
 #include "environment/function_bindings.h"
+#include "environment/privileged_keywords.h"
 #include "memory/memory.h"
 #include "memory/node.h"
 #include "memory/pointer.h"
@@ -102,6 +103,8 @@ struct pso_pointer initialise_environment( uint32_t node ) {
                      DEBUG_BOOTSTRAP, 0 );
 	}
 
+	initialise_privileged_keywords(frame_pointer);
+
 	result = initialise_function_bindings(push_local(
 		frame_pointer, make_frame_with_env(0, frame_pointer, result)));
 

src/c/environment/function_bindings.c

@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ struct function_data function_initialisers[] = {
 	 U"`nil`.",
 	 &not},
 	{U"or",
-	 U"(or expressions...): returns `nil` if all of these `expressions...` "
+	 U"(or expressions...): returns `nil` if every one of these `expressions...` "
 	 U"evaluates to `nil`, else `t`.",
 	 &or},
 	{U"true?",

src/c/environment/privileged_keywords.c

@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ struct pso_pointer privileged_keyword_location;
 struct pso_pointer privileged_keyword_name;
 
 
-#define load_and_lock(var,val)var = lock_object(c_string_to_lisp_keyword(nil, val))
+#define load_and_lock(var,val)(var = lock_object(c_string_to_lisp_keyword(frame_pointer, val)))
 
 
-struct pso_pointer initialise_privileged_keywords(struct pso_pointer env) {
+struct pso_pointer initialise_privileged_keywords(struct pso_pointer frame_pointer) {
 	load_and_lock(privileged_keyword_bootstrap, PK_BOOTSTRAP);
 	load_and_lock(privileged_keyword_documentation, PK_DOCUMENTATION);
 	load_and_lock(privileged_keyword_location, PK_LOCATION);

src/c/io/alphabets.h

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * io/alphabets.h
+ *
+ * Post Scarcity Software Environment: alphabets
+ *
+ * I probably don't need these at this stage and may never in fact need them,
+ * but...
+ *
+ * (c) 2026 Simon Brooke <simon@journeyman.cc>
+ * Licensed under GPL version 2.0, or, at your option, any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __psse_io_io_h
+#define __psse_io_io_h
+
+#define GREEK L"ΑαΒβΓγΔδΕεΖζΗηΘθΙιΚκΛλΜμΝνΞξΟοΠπΡρΣσςΤτΥυΦφΧχΨψΩω"
+#define ELDERFUTHARK L"ᚠᚢᚦᚨᚱᚲᚷᚹᚺᚾᛁᛃᛈᛇᛉᛊᛏᛒᛖᛗᛚᛜᛞᛟ"
+
+#endif

src/c/io/print.c

@@ -189,8 +189,14 @@ struct pso_pointer in_write( struct pso_pointer p, URL_FILE *output,
                     } else {
                         url_fputws( L"<broken exception :-( >", output );
                     }
-                }
-                break;
+			} break;
+			case FUNCTIONTV: {
+				struct pso2 *function = pointer_to_object(p);
+				url_fputws(L"<function: ", output);
+				in_write(function->payload.function.meta, output, escape,
+						 indent);
+				write_char( L'>', output, escape );
+            } break;
             case INTEGERTV:
                 url_fwprintf( output, L"%d",
                               ( int64_t ) ( object->payload.integer.value ) );
@@ -211,6 +217,13 @@ struct pso_pointer in_write( struct pso_pointer p, URL_FILE *output,
                           indent );
                 write_char( L'>', output, escape );
                 break;
+			case SPECIALTV: {
+				struct pso2 *function = pointer_to_object(p);
+				url_fputws(L"<special form: ", output);
+				in_write(function->payload.function.meta, output, escape,
+						 indent);
+				write_char( L'>', output, escape );
+            } break;
             case TRUETV:
                 write_char( L't', output, escape );
                 break;

src/c/ops/string_ops.c

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "memory/pso2.h"
 #include "memory/tags.h"
 
+#include "ops/string_ops.h"
 #include "ops/truth.h"
 
 #include "payloads/cons.h"
@@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ char *lisp_string_to_c_string( struct pso_pointer s ) {
 
 /**
  * Return a lisp symbol representation of this wide character string. In
- * symbols, I am accepting only lower case characters.
+ * symbols, I am accepting only lower case characters and certain punctuation.
  */
 struct pso_pointer c_string_to_lisp_symbol( struct pso_pointer frame_pointer,
                                             char32_t *symbol ) {
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ struct pso_pointer c_string_to_lisp_symbol( struct pso_pointer frame_pointer,
     for ( int i = wcslen( symbol ) - 1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
         char32_t c = towlower( symbol[i] );
 
-        if ( iswalpha( c ) || c == L'-' || c == L'*' ) {
+        if ( iswalpha( c ) || wcschr(L"-*|!?", c)) {
             result = make_symbol( frame_pointer, c, result );
         }
     }