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Re: Documentation strings and function.
- To: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@c.cs.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Documentation strings and function.
- From: allen@bfly-vax.bbn.com
- Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1986 17:55:00 -0000
- Cc: allen@bfly-vax.bbn.com, Common-Lisp@su-ai.ARPA
- In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 4 Sep 1986 12:44 EDT. <FAHLMAN.12236278321.BABYL@C.CS.CMU.EDU> --------
- Scott:
It may be that there are aspects of the language that are hard or
impossible to express in Guy's simple notation. Since I think that
simplicity is a virtue, I would advocate retaining the notation and in
those cases where it is insufficient the description can be augmented
with (non-well-hidden) English.
For this case though, if we agree that the sentence midway thru pg 67
is The Truth, then how about
defun name lambda-list {declaration}* [doc-string] {declaration}* {form}*
/don