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Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> the `ignore' function accepts any number of arguments and returns nil.
> Is there a `canonical' function which would accept any number of
> arguments and return t?  (Note: I /can/ implement it myself;-), I'm just
> curious whether this exists - I couldn't find it.)

FWIW I once had the great idea of doing

(fset nil (lambda (&rest _) nil))
(fset t (lambda (&rest _) t))

but that didn't work quite as I wanted...

-- 
Nico.