Something out for which to watch

[Peter Dudey <pdudey@jupiter.Willamette.EDU>]

If you use a function like this:

(defun foo (x) (delete x '(a b c d e f)))

the quoted list '(a b c d e f) is NOT immune to the delete!  Running the
function could actually change it!

I'm not sure if this is a bug in CLISP or not--I was under the impression
that a quoted, explicit list like that was a constant, and would be
"re-created" every time the function was run.

Anyway, the problem can of course be solved by using "remove" instead.  I
would never have been able to find this bug in my program without STEP, which
revealed that my list had somehow changed...

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