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David Duffy  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 7:05 pm
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From: David Duffy <dav...@orpheus.qimr.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:05:53 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 7:05 pm
Subject: Re: A beginners question on docstrings
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John Cowan <johnwco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 30, 2012 8:44:27 AM UTC-4, hdm_persist wrote:
>> Line 2 appears to be a docstring similar to those in python.
> What it is, is an expression whose value is being discarded.
[...]
> It may be that in some implementation this value is
> associated with the name of the variable and accessible somehow, but it
> is not portable to assume that.

More common in other lisp dialects: Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp ...

 
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