Hynek Schlawack added the comment:

> But why you want to have a separate function instead of just use two builtins?

This question has been answered twice now, once from Nick – please refer above.

It's a clunky and error-prone solution to a common problem. Maybe you can't 
emphasize because it's not a common problem to you but that doesn't make it 
less useful.

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