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[HIC at MIT-MC (Howard I. Cannon)]

The Lisp Machine has for a very long time had the macros FIRST, SECOND, THIRD,
FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH which I personnaly use anytime I want the
"nth" element of a list -- I find that it makes the code substantially
clearer.  I also use (SETF (FIRST foo) bar) (as opposed to (RPLACA foo bar)) 
when I'm useing the FIRST .. SEVENTH convention.  I find this also makes
code more self-documenting.  I think MacLisp should institutionalize this
convention, and that perhaps people keep it in mind as a useful tool.

--Howard