Yeah, that's how I do it sometimes with other peoples code. But with my own code I much prefer using structs. Makes it much clearer to read and there is littl

Yeah, that's how I do it sometimes with other peoples code. But with my own code I much prefer using structs. Makes it much clearer to read and there is little implicit structure like with an ordered list. So my preferred way would look more like: (let ((struct (my-get-decoded-time))) (format t "Year: ~A~%Seconds: ~A" (time-year struct) (time-seconds struct))) With the original multiple value return, if there were a bug and I were reviewing the code, I'd need to also review get-decoded-time and see what order the values are in. If instead it returned structured data, I could skip that step as the values are clear. Lisp is still my favourite language. I generally rank languages by how much time/code I'm spending managing the language versus managing the problem I want to solve. Lisp is very good for that, very little cruft so it lets you focus directly on the problem at hand.