I would like to thank the following people for having tested the code under various common lisp implementations, and for helpful comments: hagiya%kurims.kurims.kyoto-u.junet%utokyo-relay.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET (in kcl aosv) steve@spock.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Steve on sun/franz common lisp) spar!malcolm@decwrl.dec.com (malcolm) sun/lucid raible@orville.nas.nasa.gov (Eric Raible on iris(kcl)) fateman@peoplesparc.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Fateman) Bill Schelter wfs@rascal.ics.utexas.edu