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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: accessing second return value off of read-from-string
Date: 1996/06/01
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[Erik Naggum]

|   see `nth-value' if you only want the second value.

[Michael Wein]

|   This is possible, however nth-value is intended as a universal accessor
|   function for sequences and not for retrieving multiple values.

reading the fine manual is highly recommended.

http://www.harlequin.com/books/HyperSpec/Body/mac_nth-value.html

you're confusing `nth' and `nth-value'.

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