Joseph,

> My take, as an outsider looking in, is that although there are always
> ways to improve things, the current expl3 is not too bad at all.  If
> LaTeX3 is ever going to be more than a collection of interesting coding
> ideas for TeX programmers, there does need to be a delivery point. That

On the contrary, the code is wonderful. My complaint isn't the
code itself, but the syntactic conventions.

Javier