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I can see this being useful for parsing. You often want to report all of the parsing errors to the user in one go, so collecting them into a list or iterator is useful.
But yeah, still relatively obscure.
And I'm guessing, "evert" is simply the respective English word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evert
As a non-native speaker, I didn't know that word either...
I'm a native english speaker and I didn't know that word :o