SETF and friends

[Robert W. Kerns <RWK at MIT-MC>]

Rather than trying to eliminate the letter 'F' from the language,
why not consider that this letter 'F' helps clasify all these
special forms as being related?  I always think of 'F' as standing
for 'FORM', as in SET-FORM.  Now, admittedly, 'F' isn't very
obvious, various other sundry functions happen to end in 'F', but
deleting the 'F' seems to be a step in the wrong direction.  If
you have to have change, why not go to SET-FORM rather than
SET?  But personally I'd rather not make this kind of change at
all.