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   > Because your not doing pattern matching, you're comparing against a
   > set of strings/symbols/numbers/....

   Simply because pattern matching is a more powerful generalisation,
   capable of expressing case-distinction; in the end it compiles down to
   almost the same code anyway.

Are you suggesting that COND/CASE/... and other "trivial" matching
constructs should be replaced with PCASE/COND*?