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[barmar@Think.COM (Barry Margolin)]

    Date: Tue, 5 Mar 91 08:24 MST
    From: paul@taos.intel.com (Paul Collier)

    curious as to why the original coder used 'elt' as the variable name in
    the form. It seems strange to use a function name as a variable name
    (although admittedly harmless.)

The function ELT didn't exist when the code was written.  It was
introduced when Common Lisp was implemented on the Lispm.

                                                barmar