Re: COPYALL, COPYLIST, et alia

[David A. Moon <MOON at MIT-MC>]

In the Lisp machine at least, these copy operations sometimes need
to copy uninterned symbols, strings, and bignums.  I suspect something
with multiple arguments is called for; the thing to copy and keywords
specifying options.  Would COPY be a poor choice of name, i.e. are
users likely to be using it already?  If so I guess I suggest (with
trepidation) that COPYLIST be changed to do this and COPYALIST and
COPYLIST* be phased out.