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[Glenn S. Burke <GSB at MIT-ML>]

    Date: 2 February 1982 10:03-EST
    From: William G. Dubuque <WGD at MIT-MC>
    Sender: BIL at MIT-MC

    (loop for (ignore x) in pairs ...) doesn't ignore; however using
    () instead of ignore works.  Is this the defined behavior for
    loop?
Yes.
    [I realize that the ignore conventions aren't standardized across
    Lisps; perhaps the MacLisp compiler could be made to recognize
    ignore also.]
It does.  The problem here is that IGNORE is only specially recognized
when used in a variable-binding position.  As i remember it, it
isn't recognized in such things as (multiple-value (ignore foo) ...)
(i'm talking lispm here--maybe this has been "fixed" but i don't think
so).  What you are saying is that
    (SETQ IGNORE (CAR L))
should do something special, like not bother.  (I could say something
nasty like "it's bad enough that the symbols T and NIL are treated
specially, you want IGNORE to be also?", but i won't.)