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[ALAN at MIT-MC (Alan Bawden)]

I consider it a bug that the DEFMAX package must be loaded in order
for FORMAT to work.  I don't see the connection at all between the
two.  Why should a utility function like FORMAT require such runtime
support?  Am I going to lose the next time someone rewrites GRINDEF or
TRACE?  If these functions are really all that necessary then perhaps
we should make them part of the default MacLisp world instead of
pussyfooting around with this autoloading gubbish.  Just looking at
the source of DEFMAX I don't see any reason that these functions should
be polluting my lisp environment since I no longer even use the
standard DEFMACRO.