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I'm looking at one of the call-a-function form of fancy splits, namely:

   (! FUNC SPLIT)

Info says that the argument passed to FUNC will be "the result of
SPLIT". Suppose I have:  

   (! my-function (& "a-group" "another-group))

The result of the inner split there is both groups, right? So in what
form are they returned (and passed)? As a list of two strings, or what? 

Tommy

P.S. Bonus question to help a lisp newb. Is there a simple piece of lisp
I could have written as the body of my-function so as to answer my own
question?