Date: 21 Apr 1987 1204-PST (Tuesday) From: goldman@VAXA.ISI.EDU I'm sure this must have been suggested long ago, but I'd at least like to know why it is not part of common lisp: MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL. (Naively, MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND is a macro that turns into MULTIPLE-VALUE-CALL with a lambda-list of (&optional ,@varlist &rest ignore) ]