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From: Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: documentation strings of lexically scoped functions
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In article 
<1ba20170-33aa-4ded-90f6-8667d1fe7...@l1g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>,
 kodifik <kodi...@eurogaran.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity :
> In common lisp, functions created by 'flet' or 'labels' are allowed to
> have doc strings, as any other function.
> But they are not accessible from outside.
> Are those doc strings useful ?
> Are they used?
> If so... how? Can anyone provide some example-s?

Some implementations provide extensions that allow you to access lexical 
functions.  E.g. IIRC, Symbolics CL had names something like (:INTERNAL 
<containing-fun> <internal-fun>).  You could pass them to operators like 
DISASSEMBLE, TRACE, and DOCUMENTATION.

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Barry Margolin, bar...@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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