Re: member returns list (was: Re: To `boundp' or not to `boundp'?)

[Emanuel Berg]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> The basic idea of all these things is that if
> a function can easily return something more detailed
> and potentially useful than just true/false, it
> might as well do so. There's no downside, and
> potential upside.

I agree, the question was rather what the "potential
upside" has been in practice. Usually when you can do
one hundred things with something it boils down to two
or three things or combinations that are actually
used, even by the masters.

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