Needless to say, when I typed: Since CLtL says "FBOUNDP is always true of symbols", it's hard to see how we could do anything else... (I agree, though, that the suggested function would be useful). the "FBOUNDP" should have been "FUNCTIONP"... -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@gswd-vms