Re: Confusing doc string of list-or-string at point

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:33:28 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> If the list is enclosed in a string, does it mean this will return the
> string, not the list?  IOW, what will it return in these two cases:
> 
>   (foo "bar baz" quux)
>   "foo (bar baz) guux"

It looks like it prefers the innermost thing, whether it's a list or a
string.  Is that correct?  If so, why/when/where is this kind of
"thing" useful in practice?