[mcclim-devel] McCLIM 2.0 in 2008

Rainer Joswig joswig at lisp.de
Thu Jan 17 18:04:16 UTC 2008


Am 17.01.2008 um 08:27 schrieb Robert Strandh:

> I am starting to think that docstrings are evil (because they are
> mostly noise to the person reading the code).  I would like to discuss
> the possibility of using (SETF DOCUMENTATION) instead.
>

Doc strings are for users of those functions/macros. It helps me to  
understand
what the function does, how I call it, what results I get back and so  
on.
I really like that feature.

If for some code the documentation string gets in he way,
using (SETF DOCUMENTATION) is absolutely fine.





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