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by rightbyte 1218 days ago
Thanks for the summary!

> - 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'.

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right

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