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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 15:45:00 -0000
- Cc: James Rice <Rice@sumex-aim.ARPA>, Common-Lisp@su-ai.ARPA, allen@bfly-vax.bbn.com
- In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 3 Sep 1986 21:09 EDT. <FAHLMAN.12236108178.BABYL@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
Scott:
It would seem that "It is an error if more than one doc-string is present"
is inconsistent with the syntactic description of defun at the top of page 67.
I refer specifically to the {declaration | doc-string}* segment, which
implies a free mix of any number of declarations and doc-strings. Rice's
example is legal, if one relies on the latter. It should be decided which
is correct, and the appropriate repair made to the book.
/Don