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Re: Strange (?) response of LIST to SYMBOLs

   I'm not sure if this is a bug or some unexplained (in the manual,
anyway) feature. At any rate I'd appreciate it if you could explain
this phenomenom to me. 

(list "foo")==>("FOO")
(list 'foo)====>(FOO)
but
(list (intern "foo"))===>(|FOO|)
even though
(typep (intern "foo"))==>SYMBOL

   Does this special handling of the SYMBOL returned by INTERN mean
something special??

		Puzzled,
		DTS