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Alex Shinn <foof@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The rationale for using byte was largely backwards compatibility. > Common-Lisp, Gauche, and PLT (as of version 300) all use the above > names. Surely true, but the last and only case where we borrow inappropriate names from Lisp is car and cdr. Thomas