A memorial day issue

[Bernard S. Greenberg <BSG%SCRC-TENEX@MIT-MC>]

Although the current PARSE-NUMBER is unworkable, the original idea has
a legitimate place, and satisfies a legitimate need, in the language.
Before coming to the Lisp Machine (which has a PARSE-NUMBER which is
really PARSE-INTEGER), every program that interacted with a user
which I had written required writing such a routine.  It seems inevitable
that any program that reads strings from a user would require such a 
routine, so, thus, it ought be part of the language.

READ will not do the trick.  READ cannot implement a subsystem's
contract on what the subsystem's legal input is.   Syntactic errors
in typing a number should be detectable in a portable fashion without
recourse to trapping READ errors (e.g., unbalanced parens in read-from-string).
READ can be forced to produce odd side-effects via #. .

Rename and respecify PARSE-NUMBER to PARSE-INTEGER.
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