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CL used to define `values' as an alias to `list'.
It has been changed (end of last year) to

	(defsubst values (&rest values)
	  (apply 'list values))

This has the "interesting" side-effect that compiling the function
(defun foo () (values 1)) results in the following byte-code:

	byte code for foo:
	  args: nil
	0	constant  1
	1	list1	  
	2	varbind	  values
	3	constant  apply
	4	constant  list
	5	varref	  values
	6	call	  2
	7	unbind	  1
	8	return	  

in other words, the same result as if we had compiled
(defun foo () (let ((values (list 1))) (apply 'list values)))


	Stefan