[climacs-devel] Re: [Gardeners] RFG climacs docstrings

Robert Strandh strandh at labri.fr
Sun Jan 1 00:14:31 UTC 2006


John Q Splittist writes:
 > 
 > (a) "An implementation is permitted to discard documentation strings at 
 > any time for implementation-defined reasons." and

Fair enough.  Do we know of any implementation we care about that does
that? 

 > (b) Having our own mechanism allows us to do what Brian suggested, and 
 > have a function that knows how to render the information onto a given 
 > pane/stream (we might what to throw an &allow-other-keys in there 
 > somewhere, too).

OK, sure. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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