Re: MAKE-LIST

[Daniel L. Weinreb <dlw at MIT-AI>]

Yes, the Lisp Machine MAKE-LIST should originally have been defined to
take the area secondly as an optional argument.  What you make Maclisp
do depends more on whether you are concerned with compatibility, or the
right thing.  Both the NIL and Lisp Machine groups seem extremely
reluctant to put up with language deficiencies, even minor ones, simply
to be compatible with the other.