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    > Funny name. Seems like value-if-bound would be more accurate.

    Yeah.  Or "bound-value".

The name was not chosen carefully because this was not intended as
an advertised facility.

If we want to make it one, I suggest the name symbol-value-safe.  Like
car-safe.