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A need could legitimately come up through xargs.

I'm reminded of the seemingly absurdly large limits of function arguments count in Common Lisp implementations. They're so large because you often write:

  (apply #'some-function some-data)
which calls some-function with some-data becoming the argument list to the function.


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