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Subject: Re: space leak from `values'
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:16:19 -0400
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I did not realize there were so many places where this was done.
However, (setcdr (or (nthcdr N LIST) (list nil)) nil) is pretty
simple.  I am not sure we need a new function to replace that
even if that is done 20 times in Emacs.