🚀 go-pugleaf

    Thank you for your replies.  You all said something to the effect that
  `member' isn't defined in vanilla 18.55 Emacs.  This confused me slightly,
  as I had started up emacs with `-q', and `member' was there, as it always
  had been.  So I went grepping, and discovered that it was defined in a
  site-local load file.

    As suggested, I've defined my own version of `member' (called
  `equal-member') which tests with `equal'.  In the process, I discovered
  that several other useful functions I had been using where site-local,
  and hence non-portable.  I'll have to be more careful in future :-)

    I'd agree that the `member' function defined in doctor.el should be
  renamed to `doctor-member'.  Obviously, doing the same for the version in
  cl.el would defeat the purpose, which is to provide many of the
  functions of Common Lisp.  However, I feel that something with the
  functionality of `equal-member' is useful enough to be made standard ...
  just a thought.

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