On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 01:59:01PM +0100, John Sampson wrote:
> For beginners it might be useful in a future version if an attempt to use
> 'member' with a list as first argument gave an error message. It is not
> obvious from the term that it applies to sets and tables but not lists.
> If one uses it with a list it just mysteriously fails.

John has a good point and raises an interesting question:

Why shouldn't member(["a","b","c"], "c") work?  Yes, it would
be slower than testing membership in a set or table, but...



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