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Question about the function DOCUMENTATION

To: Stride 440 User <HELLER%cs.umass.edu@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Subject: Question about the function DOCUMENTATION
From: "Scott E. Fahlman" <Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1986 16:09:00 -0000
Cc: Common-Lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
In-reply-to: Msg of 18 Jul 1986 11:46-EDT from Stride 440 User <HELLER%cs.umass.edu at CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>
Sender: FAHLMAN@C.CS.CMU.EDU

By my reading of the manual, an implementation is only required to
support the five types of documentation specified.  Allowing an
arbitrary symbol to be used as the type argument to 
(SETF (DOCUMENTATION symbol doc-type)) is a nice extension, and most
implementations get this for free, but it is neither required nor
forbidden by anything currently in the manual.  So both Lucid and DEC
are in compliance on this.

-- Scott

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