Re: HS violations in Corman

Roger Corman wrote:

> I had no idea lambda forms supported doc strings. I thought those were 
> purely part of DEFxxx macros (defun, defvar, etc.). What is the system 
> supposed to do with them (besides properly parse them)?

See the page for DOCUMENTATION

(documentation x 'function) does this:

     If x is a function, returns the documentation string associated with x.

but note that a conforming implementation is free to discard documentation
strings at any time.  If it does not, you get:

(documentation #'(lambda () "foo" nil) 'function) ==> "foo"

        Paul






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