except for several unused parameter warnings (because there is so much code
still #if 0'd out), and one implicit conversion from long long to long which
still has to be dealt with.
old system (for example, the meaning of 'a') has yet to be restored. In the
new scheme, this will be done by definition a function outside of the value
expression logic, rather than the tight coupling between journal innards and
value expressions that occurred in 2.x.
