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Subject: Re: documentation strings of lexically scoped functions
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On 15 feb, 18:15, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
wrote:
> In anycase, (documentation 'f 'function) may always return nil=85

Yeah.
For me, that's a (necessary) concession to a failure:
Either the failure of hardware manufacturers to provide a decent
memory
infrastructure (i.e. one that would not need to separate RAM from
disc)
or the failure of Lisp's attempt to unify the concepts
of programming language and operative system.
Perhaps the latter is a consequence of the former.