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> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 01:37:12 -0400
> From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@rhansen.org>
> 
> See attached.

Thanks, but please explain the motivation for these changes.  In
particular, why would we need to describe in a doc string such
intimate details of our current implementation?  If there was some
situation where you needed these details for some Lisp program, please
describe that situation.