Re: ANSI question (load evaluation order)

Christophe Rhodes <csr21@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nicolas Neuss <my.name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> should the following work or do I have to wrap the function definition in
>> an (EVAL-WHEN (:LOAD-TOPLEVEL)...)?
>
>> [...]
>> (assert (documentation 'test 'function))
>
> I believe that no implementation is ever required not to signal an
> error on this form, as they are free to discard documentation strings
> at any time for any reason. Is there a test case you can provide
> without the DOCUMENTATION function?

No, because my idea was to use the documentation string for generating also
an interactive demo:-)

Hmm, maybe the idea is not really that good. At least, I should accept it
to be NIL.

Nicolas.
.

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