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From: ram@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Rob MacLachlan)
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Subject: Re: Multiple Return values in Common Lisp.
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 17:40:50 EST
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>From: geller@sunybcs.UUCP (James Geller)
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
>Subject: Multiple Return values in Common Lisp.
>
>It would be much more reasonable to create a calling convention that
>permits to access the different return values at different points.

What about multiple-value-bind?  This is the mv-receiving form used 99% 
of the time. 

In your example of non-mv use of "#*", I would just use LET.  This is a
perfectly acceptable aplicative alternative to SETQ.  If there is any major
efficency difference, your compiler is broken.  By the way, #* is already 
bit-vector syntax.

  Rob