>  It is still unclear to me why the restriction was imposed that a
>  sequence should not have elements that are sequences. 

That's puzzled me as well, the automatic flattening of nested sequences
that happens to maintain this restriction (and the complete loss of
information about () values that were there) seems to generate more
surprises than anything else.

David

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