PUTASSOC

[ROACH]

    In my prejudiced opinion, PUTASSOC should be able to take NIL for
its alst argument and should return the new alst as its value.  I have
written a similar function in MACLISP and quite often I build an alist
from scratch, i.e. NIL.  So long as PUTASSOC is used for effect, my semantics
is upwards compatible with Interlisp's.  It isn't too late to fix this guy.
				Kelly Roach