value of *

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    Date: Tue, 18 Feb 86 09:22:59 PST
    From: fateman@dali.berkeley.edu (Richard Fateman)

    While I can understand the efficiency motivation for the spec on p 325,
    I would find it much handier to have "*" refer to multiple-values returns
    to the top level.  That is,
    => (values 1 2)
    1  ;
    2
    => (multiple-value-list *)
    (1 2)
      ;;; the behavior now is   (1) .

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