> - creat is spelled with an e
You mean it was 'create'? Funny if 'creat' was a mistake that stuck.
My favourite in this genre is 'makunbound'.
some cases of this relate to identifiers only having 6 significant characters in some object file formats (typically a 32-bit or 36-bit field using rad50) but i don't know if lisp's makunbound was such an example, and creat surely was not
some cases of this relate to identifiers only having 6 significant characters in some object file formats (typically a 32-bit or 36-bit field using rad50) but i don't know if lisp's makunbound was such an example, and creat surely was not